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diff --git a/doc/s6-notify-fd-from-socket.html b/doc/s6-notify-fd-from-socket.html index a6ab880..e22a04a 100644 --- a/doc/s6-notify-fd-from-socket.html +++ b/doc/s6-notify-fd-from-socket.html @@ -110,6 +110,11 @@ protocol that you want to run under s6. If you want to do the opposite, i.e. run under systemd a daemon that uses the s6 notification protocol, use the <a href="s6-notify-socket-from-fd.html">s6-notify-socket-from-fd</a> program instead. </li> + <li> Despite <em>building</em> on every OS supported by s6, +<tt>s6-notify-fd-from-socket</tt> will only <em>work</em> on systems implementing +abstract sockets with autobind, which in practice means Linux 2.3.15 and later. +Other systems do not have systemd anyway, so services should choose other +notification mechanisms. </li> </ul> </body> diff --git a/doc/s6-notify-socket-from-fd.html b/doc/s6-notify-socket-from-fd.html index 452cdb4..a1f68d2 100644 --- a/doc/s6-notify-socket-from-fd.html +++ b/doc/s6-notify-socket-from-fd.html @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ <p> <tt>s6-notify-socket-from-fd</tt> is different from other chainloading -tools in s6, in as it's not meant to be used in s6 run scripts. Instead, +tools in s6: it's not meant to be used in s6 run scripts. Instead, it's meant to be used when you're <em>not</em> using s6, but another service manager that does not support the <a href="notifywhenup.html">s6 readiness notification protocol</a>, @@ -119,12 +119,8 @@ not using the systemd notification protocol, normally has no use for it. </dd> <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> An early version of this program was previously available on skarnet.org, +unpackaged, under the name <tt>sdnotify-wrapper</tt>. </li> <li> <tt>s6-notify-socket-from-fd</tt> is for s6-style daemons that you want to run under systemd. If you want to do the opposite, i.e. run under s6 a daemon that uses the systemd protocol, use the |