Interesting article on boot ordering

[Enrico Scholz]

dhollis at davehollis.com (David T Hollis) writes:

> [... automatic process-respawning in minit ...]
> ...
> with any frequency worth adding all of the overhead of an init
> monitoring deal

There is nearly no overhead in doing this. Just check in the SIGCHLD
handler which program died (wait4(2)) and restart it. 'minit' does this
job in a 5.6KiB sized, statically linked binary with 32KiB runtime
memory-usage (VSZ).




Enrico