Designing a new init: low level communication

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Erich Schubert wrote:

>Hi,
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>>And say you want to monitor all output from all daemons?  I like a
>>event/hook based system where plugins/programs can hook into events much
>>better than every service having to specifically say "you use this".
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>write "montior stdout,stderr" to the "toinit" fd, then read on "frominit"?
>sure, we need a bit of code in init for that, but this should be easy
>to make ifdef'able.
>And still a lot less code in init.
>Maybe we can use "monitor stdout,stderr to socket foo" instead, too.
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I suppose we could allow a program/plugin/daemon to connect and monitor
events either way really, such as service started/service status
changed/program output.

>best regards,
>Erich Schubert
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