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authorLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2026-04-09 12:27:56 +0000
committerLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2026-04-09 12:27:56 +0000
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<h2 id="notes"> Notes </h2>
<ul>
+ <li> <tt>s6-notify-socket-from-fd</tt> sends its notification as a subprocess
+with a different pid from <em>prog</em>, so the unit file running the service
+needs the <tt>NotifyAccess=all</tt> directive. </li>
+ <li> Despite <em>building</em> on every OS supported by s6,
+<tt>s6-notify-socket-from-fd</tt> will only <em>work</em> on systems implementing
+abstract sockets with autobind, which in practice means Linux 2.3.15 and later.
+This is okay, because it is only useful to systemd users. </li>
<li> This program was previously available on skarnet.org outside of any
package, under the name <tt>sdnotify-wrapper</tt>. </li>
<li> <tt>s6-notify-socket-from-fd</tt> is for s6-style daemons that you