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[PATCH Shepherd] doc: Update user services example for `services already running'.

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Message #10 received at 61146-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>, 61146-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#61146: [PATCH Shepherd] doc: Update user services example
 for `services already running'.
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2023 20:51:52 +0100

Hi,

Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke <at> gnu.org> skribis:

>>From de09ecb16b547830f0df1efc42c78affaaf9c9c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: "Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2023 12:05:32 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH Shepherd] doc: Update user services example for `services
>  already running'.
>
> The previously suggested example now gives
>
>     Services already running, so not daemonizing.
>
> which is fixed by daemonizing right away.
>
> This is a follow-up to commit
>     3197c1c161d10b7f76771a2943f20fdafc5cc14a
>     service: 'daemonize' action does nothing when services are already running.
>
> * doc/shepherd.texi (Managing User Services): Daemonize before starting
> services.

Applied, thanks!

You’re right that the change in question should have been in ‘NEWS’.  I
guess I didn’t realize this could cause problems because in effect
daemonizing after child processes had been started would not work
correctly (shepherd wouldn’t receive SIGCHLD for those.)

Ludo’.

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