* man/runsvdir.8: document that the services directory is re-scanned if

    the time of last modification, the inode, or the device has changed.
  * sv.c: don't report success on 'sv start' if the service is in state
    finish (thx Matthew R. Dempsky).
  * svlogd.c: new config line p: optionally prefix each line written to
    logs, stderr, or through udp; no longer skip empty lines (just
    containing '\n'), old behavior can be restored with '-' in config.
  * man/svlogd.8: document new p config line; adapt.
1.5.0.

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/man/runsvdir.8 b/man/runsvdir.8
index 7aa7249..adfa587 100644
--- a/man/runsvdir.8
+++ b/man/runsvdir.8
@@ -18,9 +18,13 @@ characters long or absent.
 .B runsvdir
 starts a
 .BR runsv (8)
-process for each subdirectory in the services directory
+process for each subdirectory, or symlink to a directory, in the services
+directory
 .IR dir ,
-up to a limit of 1000 subdirectories.
+up to a limit of 1000 subdirectories,
+and restarts a
+.BR runsv (8)
+process if it terminates.
 .B runsvdir
 skips subdirectory names starting with dots.
 .BR runsv (8)
@@ -30,20 +34,17 @@ PATH.
 .P
 At least every five seconds
 .B runsvdir
-checks whether the services directory
+checks whether the time of last modification, the inode, or the device, of
+the services directory
 .I dir
 has changed.
-If it sees a new subdirectory in
+If so, it re-scans the service directory, and if it sees a new subdirectory,
+or new symlink to a directory, in
 .IR dir ,
 it starts a new
 .BR runsv (8)
-process.
-If it sees an old sudirectory where a
-.BR runsv (8)
-process has exited, it restarts the
-.BR runsv (8)
-process.
-If
+process;
+if
 .B runsvdir
 sees a subdirectory being removed that was previously there, it sends the
 corresponding
diff --git a/man/svlogd.8 b/man/svlogd.8
index 677ff8e..e8b03b7 100644
--- a/man/svlogd.8
+++ b/man/svlogd.8
@@ -158,8 +158,7 @@ exists, and if so, reads the file line by line and adjusts configuration for
 .I log
 as follows:
 .P
-If the line is empty, less than two characters long, or starts with a ``#'',
-it is ignored.
+If the line is empty, or starts with a ``#'', it is ignored.
 A line of the form
 .TP
 .RI s size
@@ -272,6 +271,13 @@ but transmitted through udp only.
 Error messages from
 .B svlogd
 concerning sending udp packages still go to the log directory.
+.TP
+.RI p prefix
+tells
+.B svlogd
+to prefix each line to be written to the log directory, to standard error,
+or through UDP, with
+.IR prefix .
 .P
 If a line starts with a
 .IR \- ,