s6-frontend
Software
skarnet.org

The s6-frontend-alias-chpst program

s6-frontend-alias-chpst implements runit's chpst command by rewriting itself into a command line made of idiomatic chainloading s6 commands.

Interface

     s6-frontend-alias-chpst [ -v ] [ -P ] [ -0 ] [ -1 ] [ -2 ] [ -u user ] [ -U user ] [ -b argv0 ] [ -e dir ] [ -/ root ] [ -n niceness ] [ -l|-L lock ] [ -m bytes ] [ -d bytes ] [ -o n ] [ -p n ] [ -f bytes ] [ -c bytes ] prog...

When s6-frontend has been configured with the --enable-aliases-runit option, the s6-frontend-alias-chpst program is built, and at installation time, a chpst symbolic link is created, pointing to it.

s6-frontend-alias-chpst implements most of the functionality of chpst, as closely as possible. It does so by rewriting itself into a command line that may invoke one or more of the following programs:

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