Respawn needs a retry time

[Scott James Remnant]

On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 15:06 +0200, Marius Karthaus wrote:

> I feel I'm missing an option for respawn: the retry time.
> 
> If I define a service in upstart, it will try to respawn the service 
> with the set limits, for instance (default) by retrying 10 times in 5 
> seconds. Now let's assume that a program is unable to start because of 
> whatever reason during just 1 second. In that time, depending on how 
> fast the program exits it will be tried 10 times and the program will 
> never ever be started again by upstart. To me this is bad behavior.
> I think upstart should try a couple of times, complain that it is unable 
> to start the process, wait for some time for the problem to be sorted 
> out and try to respawn again.
> 
> So I propose a third option to the respawn stanza, the retry time. That 
> way we can define a much more sensible respawn strategy.
> 
A third option, or a "respawn retry" stanza?

Would not be hard to do, and would be a good miniature project for
someone.

Patches welcome :-)

Scott
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