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s6 is a small suite of programs for UNIX, designed to allow process
supervision (a.k.a service supervision), in the line of daemontools and
runit, as well as various operations on processes and daemons. It is
meant to be a toolbox for low-level process and service administration,
providing different sets of independent tools that can be used within or
without the framework, and that can be assembled together to achieve
powerful functionality with a very small amount of code.

Examples of things you can do by assembling together several programs
provided by s6 - besides process supervision:
- syslogd functionality, using much less resources than the traditional
  syslogd.
- Reliable service readiness notification, which is the basis for
  service dependency management.
- Controlled privileged gain as with sudo, without using any suid
  programs.
- The useful parts of socket activation without having to change
  application code or link servers against any specific library, and
  without having to switch to any specific init system.

This requires: execline

Maintained by: Muhammad Mahendra Subrata
Keywords: supervisor,services
ChangeLog: s6