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| author | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2010-01-15 12:13:46 -0800 |
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| committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2010-01-15 15:29:54 -0800 |
| commit | ff8decf1a318b4a611cb08bb3f12833044e8a872 (patch) | |
| tree | 0ed0790027e3b32e230ad8fa87730ea1eb1caafd /lib/daemon.man | |
| parent | 7943cd51e7eba1442846a853b6ed62e89a05d110 (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-ff8decf1a318b4a611cb08bb3f12833044e8a872.tar.gz | |
daemon: Add support for process monitoring and restart.
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/daemon.man b/lib/daemon.man index ea0561daf..c23937747 100644 --- a/lib/daemon.man +++ b/lib/daemon.man @@ -20,6 +20,17 @@ Causes \fB\*(PN\fR to detach itself from the foreground session and run as a background process. .TP +\fB--monitor\fR +Creates an additional process to monitor the \fB\*(PN\fR daemon. If +the daemon dies due to a signal that indicates a programming error +(e.g. \fBSIGSEGV\fR, \fBSIGABRT\fR), then the monitor process starts a +new copy of it. If the daemon die or exits for another reason, the +monitor process exits. +.IP +This option is normally used with \fB--detach\fR, but it also +functions without it. + +.TP \fB--no-chdir\fR By default, when \fB--detach\fR is specified, \fB\*(PN\fR changes its current working directory to the root directory after it |