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+ <title>prepare-svscan</title>
+ <meta name="Description" content="Helper script to initialize a supervision tree." />
+ <meta name="Keywords" content="goetia s6 s6-rc supervision tree" />
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+ <h1>The prepare-svscan program</h1>
+ <p>
+ prepare-svscan does generic preparation of the
+ <a href="//0x53.net/software/goetia/supervisiontree.html">supervision tree</a>.
+ It is also used in system-init and
+ <a href="./user-init.html">user-init</a>.
+ </p>
+ <h2>Interface</h2>
+ <pre> prepare-svscan <em>workingdir</em> <em>rundir</em> <em>bundle</em> <em>prog...</em></pre>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ prepare-svscan sets its standard input to <code>/dev/null</code>.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ It sets the umask to <code>0022</code>.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ It creates the directory <code><em>rundir</em></code>.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ It copies all contents of <code><em>workingdir</em>/run-image/.</code>
+ to <code><em>rundir</em>/</code>.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ It changes its standard output to <code><em>rundir</em>/service/s6-svscan-log/fifo</code>.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ prepare-svscan then forks a background process that:
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ waits for a reading end at <code><em>rundir</em>/service/s6-svscan-log/fifo</code>.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Once the above is given, if <code><em>rundir</em>/s6-rc</code> does <em>not</em> exist,
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ it initiates <a href="https://skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/">s6-rc</a> on
+ <code><em>rundir</em>/service</code> using
+ <a href="https://skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/s6-rc-init.html">s6-rc-init</a>
+ and starts the bundle <code><em>bundle</em></code> using s6-rc.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ It copies stderr to stdout.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ If available, the directory <code><em>workingdir</em>/env</code> is sourced using
+ <a href="https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-envdir.html">s6-env</a>.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ prepare-svscan executest into <code><em>prog...</em></code>,
+ which is usually directly or indirectly
+ <a href="https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-svscan.html">s6-svscan</a>.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>
+ Once s6-svscan is launched it will start an
+ <a href="https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-supervise.html">s6-supervise</a>
+ process on <code><em>rundir</em>/service/s6-svscan-log</code> which starts
+ <a href="https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-log.html">s6-log</a> reading
+ from <code><em>rundir</em>/service/s6-svscan-log/fifo</code>.
+ This in turn triggers the forked background process to continue with its second step.
+ </p>
+ <h2>Exit codes</h2>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ prepare-svscan usually executes into
+ <a href="https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-svscan.html">s6-svscan</a>
+ which exits according to its page.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Since prepare-svscan is an
+ <a href="https://skarnet.org/software/execline/">execline</a>
+ script, it exits with an approximation
+ of employed program that failed.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ prepare-svscan mostly uses
+ <a href="https://skarnet.org/software/execline/">execline</a>
+ and
+ <a href="https://skarnet.org/software/s6/">s6</a>
+ software, the exit behaviour of which can be looked up on
+ their respective pages.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ See also:
+ <a href="https://skarnet.org/software/execline/exitcodes.html">execline exit code handling</a>.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ <h2>Options</h2>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ There are no otions to prepare-svscan.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </body>
+</html>