Re: The Shepherd on Fibers

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Il giorno mar, 29/03/2022 alle 15.29 +0000, Attila Lendvai ha scritto:
> > > Which socket file?
> > > 
> > > (In practice ‘exec-command’ would only fail if the program cannot
> > > be
> > > found.)
> > 
> > Attila Lendvai has encountered the socket file to be deleted
> > before,
> > this seemed to have been the cause and I have seen a few bug
> > reports
> > (about tor?) that might have had the same cause. I don't have a bug
> > number at hand.
> 
> my first ever service has non-trivial work to do in the start GEXP,
> and unsurprisingly, it has often ended up throwing an exception while
> i subled along my learning curve. it's not caught by shepherd right
> around the call to the start GEXP, and reaches a handler up higher
> that ends up deleting the socket (and IIRC skipping the start of rest
> of the services).
> 
> it's on my TODO to harden the error handling in shepherd once the
> shepherd-for-guix patch is in, or something equivalent that shortens
> the edit-compile-test cycle of shepherd.

What's the shepherd-for-guix patch ? What does it bring to Shepherd ?