[fpc-pascal] respawn a daemon in Linux

[Michael Schnell]

On 01/14/2014 12:59 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>
> They'll get a TERM first, and five seconds later a KILL. You don't 
> want to restart after that first signal, because if you wait until the 
> second one you risk leaving files etc. associated with the program in 
> an indeterminate state. I've had Qemu break a database inside NTFS by 
> refusing to honour a shutdown.
>
> So you can't restart after a KILL, shouldn't after a TERM, might not 
> want to after an INT (which, as we were discussing a few days ago, 
> includes ^C from the keyboard) but probably do want to restart after a 
> HUP. At the very least, you need to make sure that your program 
> propagates why it's stopped to whatever's started it.
>

Thanks a lot. I'll do some tests.....

-Michael