Upstart: feature questions and test code

[Garrett Cooper]

One point of concern... has anyone considered executing upstart in a
failover fashion at all, i.e. one process runs as pid = 1 and another
pid = 2, so pid = 1 watches the processes it spawns + the failover
daemon, while pid = 2 just monitors the pid = 1 copy (seems circular,
but that way all of the bases would be covered to a certain degree)?
Or if pid = 1 dies is it considered "game over, system completely
fubared?"

I know that would make process ownership difficult if nigh /
completely impossible, but at one point there was some discussion of
having failover process management daemons.

Not a likely case, but just something I remembered hearing about from before...

Thanks,
-Garrett