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love to see new init projects. how does it stack up against runit (the last one i really familiarized myself with on void linux)?

>>Guinan+(OP)
She credits runit and daemontools as inspiration, and it looks extremely similar. I hope that at some point she writes a comparison explaining what Nitro does differently from runit and why.

>>kragen+x
runit doesn't propagate SIGTERM to services it starts.

>>cbzbc+Hn
Hmm, is that desirable? If someone's going around sending SIGTERM to random processes they might also send SIGKILL, and there's no way Nitro can propagate SIGKILL to processes it starts.

>>cbzbc+Hn
It does if you use SIGHUP.

>>kragen+Dv
It does, because SIGTERM is traditionally understood as the trigger for a shutdown. Docker - for instance - will send a SIGTERM to pid 1 when a container is stopped - which goes back to a previous comment here about using a real init as pid 1 if the thing in your container forks: >>44990092

>>cbzbc+R91
Interesting! I didn't know that—I thought that when you told sysvinit to change its runlevel you normally used some slightly richer interface than signals.