Process Supervision
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Process supervision is a form of operating system service management
in which some master process remains the parent of the service processes.
Operating system service management
In computing, mechanisms and techniques for managing services often differ by operating system. Operating system service management can refer to the following:...
in which some master process remains the parent of the service processes.
Benefits
Benefits include:- Ability to restart services which have failed
- The fact that it does not require the use of "pidfiles"
- Clean process state
- Reliable logging, because the master process can capture the stdout/stderr of the service process and route it to a log
- Faster (concurrent) and ability to start up and stop