Re: shepherd respawn frequency

[Efraim Flashner]

On Sun, Jul 02, 2023 at 10:01:26PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name> skribis:
> 
> > would the shepherd maintaners (looking at you Ludo :) accept a change that 
> > introduces a new field into <service> called RESPAWN-DELAY, and issue a 
> > fiber sleep in RESPAWN-SERVICE when it is not #false, and the daemon 
> > process quits unexpectedly?
> 
> We could do that.  It never occurred to me that this is something one
> would want to have though.  My reasoning is that if you mark a service
> as respawnable, then you really want it to be respawned as soon as it
> fails, not 5 seconds later.
> 
> Do you have a motivating example in mind (a daemon) to share?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
> 

If you want to make sure that something is really gone and cleaned up
before trying again. Or an artificial delay, say while waiting for the
correct network interface to come up. Or even just
`mbsync -a && exit 1 || exit 1`

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