Comments on: Supervising forking processes

By: keesj

keesj — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:27:47 +0000

Hello Scott on 6th December 2007, 07:21 pm you wrote this article

I have upstart 0.3.9 here and this feature seams non existent didn’t the feature make it to the release?

Scott James Remnant » Blog Archive » Upstart 0.5: Job Lifecycle — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:13:37 +0000

[...] forking as before. As I’ve talked about before, Upstart can supervise process that fork, and it will wait for that to happen before [...]

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:44:49 +0000

[...] celebratory blog post demonstrated that Upstart is now able to supervise processes that fork into the background, as most [...]

Rudd-O — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:21:38 +0000

This is A-WE-SO-ME, Scott!

Marius Gedminas — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:44:07 +0000

This is incredibly cool!

Can upstart distinguish forks used to daemonize from forks used to execute external helpers? What would ’start postfix’ look like?

Diego Calleja — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:58:59 +0000

Go upstart!

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:57:47 +0000

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BT — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:53:26 +0000

Can U give us (poor stick in the mud) a clue ?
What the heck does it do ? How?

Malcolm Parsons — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:03:37 +0000

For those who can’t guess, this is an upstart feature.

Joe Shaw — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:26:17 +0000

Ok, the obvious question: how does this work?