Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 5, 2014 8:50 UTC (Fri) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems by flussence
Parent article: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Runit fails to deal with daemons that themselves fork and manage their own children.

Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 6, 2014 0:21 UTC (Sat) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (3 responses)

That's true, but I've yet to encounter anything that misbehaves in that way. If and when that happens I'll be sure to complain upstream.

Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 6, 2014 0:47 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

A Python daemon using the multiprocessing module. Yes, I've seen it personally.

Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 6, 2014 9:38 UTC (Sat) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

Jenkins and pretty much anything else written in Java.

Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 6, 2014 15:45 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Complaining about this is pointless unless the upstream you are referring to, is the init system itself. There is a ton of software out there that does it. If your init system cannot handle it, it is a failure of the init system.