From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Adam Faiz <adam.faiz@disroot.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Shepherd news + planned feature removal
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 19:09:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87leklwrb4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <afa2cf42-13c8-25d6-206a-b3a741a1d68d@disroot.org> (Adam Faiz's message of "Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:35:20 +0000")
Hi,
Adam Faiz <adam.faiz@disroot.org> skribis:
> I just have 1 question: Why is there a need for `herd status` to
> display whether a service is in a starting or stopping state?
>
> From the perspective of the shepherd, a service that is starting isn't
> running yet, and a service that is stopping isn't stopped yet.
> The "starting" and "stopping" states are just an implementation detail
> to handle the shepherd being asynchronous. It's the running and
> stopped states that a user wants to know about a service.
The way I see it, it’s more about improving the introspection
capabilities so that users can peek into service state as known to
shepherd. I don’t see a good reason to hide that info.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-25 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-24 0:35 Shepherd news + planned feature removal Adam Faiz
2023-02-24 5:14 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-02-25 18:09 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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2023-02-21 22:05 Ludovic Courtès
2023-02-22 15:28 ` Thompson, David
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