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@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ in a particular piece of hardware) so you probably don't want to be
starting them by hand if the conditions aren't there.
A service may be **up** or **down** (there are no intermediate states
like "started" or "stopping" or "dying" or "cogitating"). . Some (but
like "started" or "stopping" or "dying" or "cogitating"). Some (but
not all) services have "readiness" notifications: the dependents of a
service with a readiness notification won't be started until the
service signals (by writing to a nominated file descriptor) that it's
@ -56,13 +56,14 @@ automatically. Liminix does not automatically set it to **down**.
(If the process providing a service dies without ever notifying
readiness, Liminix will restart it as many times as it has to until the
timeout period elapses, and then stop it and mark it down.
timeout period elapses, and then stop it and mark it down.)
Controlled services
===================
**Controlled** services are those which are started/stopped on demand
by a controller instead of being started at boot time. For example
by a **controller** (another service) instead of being started at boot
time. For example:
* ``svc.uevent-rule.build`` creates a controlled service which is
active when a particular hardware device (identified by uevent/sysfs