From 8a5a621baa9e756b34c507c3d8e2119dabe7f630 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laurent Bercot
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 02:31:43 +0000
Subject: Add s6-notify-fd-from-socket and s6-notify-socket-from-fd
Also add .gitkeep files, remove old include-local/s6lockd.h,
update a little bit of doc, make s6-ftrigrd pipe-only
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@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ ports the s6 documentation to a set of man pages.
Short-lived commands exit 0 on success.
- Supervision system
+ Supervision system
s6-svscan and s6-supervise
@@ -180,17 +180,24 @@ a user interface to control those processes and monitor service states.
The s6-svperms program
The s6-svlink program
The s6-svunlink program
-The s6-svwait program
-The s6-svlisten1 program
-The s6-svlisten program
-The s6-notifyoncheck program
The s6-svdt program
The s6-svdt-clear program
The s6-permafailon program
The s6-background-watch program
- Daemontools-like utilities
+ Readiness notification for supervised services
+
+
+
+
These programs are a rewrite of the corresponding utilities from
@@ -211,14 +218,13 @@ a few extras.
The s6-tai64nlocal program
- Fifodir management, notification and subscription
+ Fifodir management, notification and subscription
-These programs are a clean rewrite of the obsolete "pipe-tools" package; they
-are now based on a properly designed notification library.
-They provide a command-line interface to
+These programs provide a command-line interface to
inter-process notification and
-synchronization.
+synchronization. They're a generalized interface to the same
+mechanisms used by tools like s6-svwait.
- Local service management and access control
+ Unix domain super-server, local service management and access control
- suidless privilege gain
+ suidless privilege gain
- Logging
+ Logging
- Management of user supervision trees
+ Management of user supervision trees
- Management of dynamic instances
+ Management of dynamic instances
- fd-holding, a.k.a. the sensible part of socket activation
+ fd-holding, a.k.a. the sensible part of socket activation
- The s6-fdholder-daemon program
@@ -334,10 +340,9 @@ synchronization.
s6 manual pages
Other components for s6-based init systems
@@ -346,10 +351,13 @@ as a set of man pages.
- s6-linux-init
is a package to help you create a /sbin/init binary booting a
Linux system with s6-svscan as process 1.
- - s6-overlay
-is a project that automates integration of s6 into Docker images.
- s6-rc is a
dependency-based service manager for s6.
+ - s6-frontend is
+a friendlier user interface to address the complete s6 ecosystem (this
+package, s6-linux-init and s6-rc).
+ - s6-overlay
+is a project that automates integration of s6 into Docker images.
- anopa is another dependency-based
service manager for s6.
- 66 is another
@@ -362,8 +370,8 @@ service manager working on top of s6.
- s6 is discussed on the
supervision mailing-list.
- - There is a #s6 IRC channel on OFTC. Sometimes people are there
-and answer questions.
+ - There is a #s6 IRC channel on OFTC. It hosts most discussions
+around supervision topics, and skaware in general.
Similar work
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