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Diffstat (limited to 'man/runsvdir.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/runsvdir.8 | 23 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 11 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 |