Import skeleton of daemonitor

README

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+daemonitor
+==============================================================================
+(c)2007, Laurence Withers, <l@lwithers.me.uk>.
+Released under the GNU GPLv3. See file COPYING or 
+http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for details.
+
+Really Quick Instructions
+-------------------------
+
+To build: ./make.sh
+To install: ./make.sh install
+
+You might want to edit 'config' first. You might also want to set
+'INSTALL_PREFIX', which is prepended onto the destination of any installed
+file.
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+Daemonitor is a daemon which starts and monitors a child process. It is
+intended to be used with foreground child processes (e.g. daemons with a
+foreground mode, or long-running processes which are always in the
+foreground). Taken together, the daemonitor instance and its child process
+represent a "standard" UNIX daemon process (i.e. backgrounded, PID file,
+etc.).
+
+The true purpose of daemonitor is to provide a robust way of monitoring
+services under e.g. openrc, which provides a mechanism for starting, stopping
+and querying services but does not have any automatic monitoring of its own.
+Thus if a daemon or service crashes, this will not be recorded or addressed
+by the system.
+
+Daemonitor is a very small daemon which itself never exits. Its simple design
+and single purpose should ensure that it is robust against various conditions
+that may arise in the system (out of disk space, out of memory, ...), and
+that it is unlikely to crash due to bugs. The process it monitors can then
+crash or exit or be killed and daemonitor will detect this and restart it.
+
+Instructions
+------------
+
+TODO