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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>.
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		<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.
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		<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.
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