Re: How Unix manages processes in userland

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 05:33:16PM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
> 
>      Not quite.  If it's down, you may want to do a restart.
> However, if it is currently starting, then you want to give it time
> to complete the startup process before doing a restart.  And, of
> course, if it fails to come up after a few restart attempts, you
> want to mark it as failed, stop doing restarts, and bring it to
> the attention of an administrator.
> 

Heh - you know, you are close to describing the Solaris SMF (service
management facility)...

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