[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] procd: Allow override of default respawn parameters

[Etienne Champetier]

Hi,

2015-09-18 11:03 GMT+02:00 Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa at googlemail.com>:

> Hi John,
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:18 AM, John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On 18/09/2015 09:59, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> >> Allow to pass RESPAWN_THESHOLD_DEFAULT, DRESPAWN_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT
> >> and RESPAWN_RETRY_DEFAULT as parameters to cmake to change the
> >> default respawn behavior.
> >>
> >
> > technically ok but why cant you tweak them in your packages initd script
> > ? i am wondering what the use case is and if there are other possible
> > solutions
>
> In our tree we've patched most (maybe even all) services to respawn forever
> (respawn_retry=-1). Including all OpenWrt provided services. Instead of
> keeping
> these local modifications to several packages it's easier to just
> override procds
> default behavior.
>
> I think there might be other people around running OpenWrt on headless
> boxes
> where the respawn retry should not be limited by default. However,
> this is of course
> not suitable for a default OpenWrt box.
>
> If there are good reasons not to include this in procd feel free to
> drop this patch.
> However, it causes zero runtime overhead and is quite simple.
>
> As a followup I'd add a config flag for procd "respawn_forver_mode" or so
> that
> just sets respawn_retry to -1.
>
> Helmut
>
> It would be great to be able to configure these settings at runtime (ie in
an uci file)

Etienne
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