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Subject: Re: Increasing the timeout for shepherd services
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:38:27 +0200
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To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Hi Ludo,

> =E2=80=98read-pid-file=E2=80=99 in the Shepherd has a hard-coded default =
value of 5
> seconds.  You can change it for each service, but there=E2=80=99s current=
ly no
> way to change the default value globally.

That's what I did: change it for each service.

> The patch below adds a SRFI-39 parameter in the Shepherd that would
> allow you to change the default PID file delay globally.

That sounds useful. Beyond my immediate problem, it seems weird to
hard-code a delay in the Shepherd source code.

Konrad.