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| author | Colin Booth <colin@heliocat.net> | 2026-01-22 22:18:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2026-01-23 03:47:31 +0000 |
| commit | 8071261331863687f6f7b38b799808bb108e90ac (patch) | |
| tree | 8d4209dd5c90961eacad37b7a6e3e9003d20fc5f | |
| parent | c1dd4dd8635d59ae1078977474cd0610f074e274 (diff) | |
| download | s6-frontend-8071261331863687f6f7b38b799808bb108e90ac.tar.gz | |
s6-frontend.html
Minor language cleanup, nothing big.
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/s6-frontend.html b/doc/s6-frontend.html index df6b913..50ef7b0 100644 --- a/doc/s6-frontend.html +++ b/doc/s6-frontend.html @@ -55,19 +55,18 @@ performs the work described in the documents linked from the <a href="s6.html">s <p> The separation between <a href="s6.html">s6</a> and s6-frontend is really just a trick to avoid writing an additional parser for the <a href="s6-frontend.conf.html">s6-frontend.conf</a> -configuration file. The <a href="//skarnet.org/software/execline/">execline</a> -set of tools is a dependency of s6-frontend anyway, because s6-frontend uses -some if these tools to build complex command lines calling various parts of the -s6 ecosystem; so using the -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/execline/envfile.html">envfile</a> tool as well -to read the configuration was a natural fit. +configuration file. Using <a +href="//skarnet.org/software/execline/envfile.html">envfile</a> to read the +configuration was a natural fit because the <a href="//skarnet.org/software/execline/">execline</a> set of tools is used by +s6-frontend to build complex command lines. </p> <p> That is why <em>usage</em> messages given by the various <code>s6 foobar help</code> commands print <code>Usage: s6 foobar subcommand...</code> but error messages, if they happen, print <code>s6-frontend: fatal: error condition</code>, because -the program where the error occurred is s6-frontend, not s6. </p> +the program where the error occurred is s6-frontend, not s6. +</p> <p> Note that most error messages will print the name of <em>another command</em>, @@ -89,8 +88,8 @@ name of the program that prepends the error messages. various parts of the s6 ecosystem </li> <li> Various programs from the <a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6/">s6 supervision suite</a> or the <a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/">s6-rc service manager</a>, -invoked by s6-frontend, perform the work. When they succeed, it is transparent; -when they fail, they prepend the error message with their name. </li> +invoked by s6-frontend, perform the work. When they succeed it is transparent; +when they fail they prepend the error message with their name. </li> </ul> </body> |