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| author | Marius Halden <marius.h@lden.org> | 2015-12-12 17:52:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Marius Halden <marius.h@lden.org> | 2015-12-12 17:52:21 +0100 |
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..87e239e --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +svcmon +====== +Parts of daemontools reimplemented for FreeBSD with kqueue and subreapers. + +Why subreapers? +--------------- +Subreapers let us make sure we don't leave any rouge sub processes when +we have to restart the daemon. + +Why kqueue? +----------- +By using kqueue for signalhandling and checking if filedescriptors are +ready `svcscan` and `svcsupervise` can spend most of it's time blocking +instead of waking up every few seconds. |