-w, --wait seconds

New option so you can set the number of seconds to wait for and
check the daemon is still running.
The old code that periodically polled wasn't that reliable - in this 
case simpler == better.
Fixes #160

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/man/start-stop-daemon.8 b/man/start-stop-daemon.8
index 88f542c7..1b1f664c 100644
--- a/man/start-stop-daemon.8
+++ b/man/start-stop-daemon.8
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd January 1, 2009
+.Dd April 19, 2009
 .Dt START-STOP-DAEMON 8 SMM
 .Os OpenRC
 .Sh NAME
@@ -140,6 +140,12 @@ Redirect the standard output of the process to logfile when started with
 Must be an absolute pathname, but relative to the path optionally given with
 .Fl r , -chroot .
 The logfile can also be a named pipe.
+.It Fl w , -wait Ar seconds
+Wait
+.Ar seconds
+after starting and check that daemon is still running.
+Useful for daemons that check configuration after forking or stopping race
+conditions where the pidfile is written out after forking.
 .It Fl 2 , -stderr Ar logfile
 The same thing as
 .Fl 1 , -stdout
@@ -160,7 +166,8 @@ can also set the scheduling priority of the daemon, but the command line
 option takes precedence.
 .Pp
 .Va SSD_STARTWAIT
-overrides the number of milliseconds set in
+As the
+.Fl w , -wait option above.
 .Pa /etc/rc.conf
 .Nm
 waits for to check the daemon is still running.