Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Simon Richter 

> A daemon must be capable of running standalone and dealing with the
> fallout of depended-on services shutting down, restarting, crashing or
> being generally unavailable. All of these are significantly harder to
> get right than startup in a SysV environment.

A lot of the time, you can just detect it, exit and leave restarting to
the init system, assuming your init system supports this.  «Don't ever
die» is only the rule if the init system lacks that support.

(Yes, there are cases where you need to handle errors more gracefully,
but having the option of «on error: exit» is useful, especially for
simplistic control loops.)

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Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are