GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor

[arjie]

One release every 4 years. So this is like monit or systemd-supervisord and so on, a process manager. I have to say the thing I most enjoy about it is the fact that it's got the classic GNU trend of "here's an obviously pronounceable spelling; let's say it a different way".

[stackghost]

The only thing missing is a recursive acronym e.g. Pies: Pies Is Experimental Software or something equally cringe like Hurd

[brendyn]

I've never heard of this program but I heard the voice in my head pronounce it is p-yes immediately. Apparently I've internalised GNU English to totally native level.

[elric]

It's how you would pronounce it if it were Latin. In which case it would mean "feet". Maybe that's not what inspired the name.

[KronisLV]

I'm reminded of this https://supervisord.org/

Used it inside of containers a few times when I wanted to keep things simple and have a container that ran both a web server and PHP-FPM at the same time and kept them up.

[Alifatisk]

Are the collection of components run in some kind of namespace? Say I run a Pies for Gitlab (which in itself had lots of components), and I run a Pies for Frpd, do they share the same space or are they isolated from each other? Am I maybe overthinking this? Perhaps its just a program manager.

[bmacho]

I think they both run as user. But you can put gitlab in a docker

https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/pies/example.php?what=gitlab

https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/pies/manual/Docker-Entrypoin...

[written-beyond]

Is this the gnu version of systemd?

edit: I know it's not a monolith like systemd but service/unit files are a core component of systemd

[eliaspro]

systemd is not a monolith.

It's a collection of losely coupled components and services of which basically every single one can be disabled or replaced by another implementation.

[bladeee]

GNU Shepherd

[mgaunard]

The area where I've seen the most homegrown implementations of things like these is HFT, with the caveat it's also designed to be distributed, integrated with isolation systems, start/stop dependency graphs...

I once worked for a company which chose to use Kubernetes instead, they regretted it.

[bandrami]

I've been using this init for years and always liked it. It's sad the Init Wars ignored it completely.

[bmacho]

Init for what, your desktop or in a product?

[asa400]

If you have to explain the pronunciation of the name of your tool in the first sentence, you've already lost.

[myth2018]

https://nginx.org/

[RupertSalt]

I was in a group who began pronouncing the dashes in command-line options as "tack" and they said it was military lingo, but I cannot now find any connection to dash, hyphen, "minus", or Morse code "dah".

[db48x]

Lots of counterexamples to that one.

[zekrioca]

No.

[Artoooooor]

English, dammit...

[hiprob]

sudo? gnu? mate? debian? ubuntu? suse?

[evilmonkey19]

Pies it means "foot" in spanish

[otterley]

Plural - “feet”

[baq]

'a dog' in polish

[gary17the]

Good to hear that some people out there still have some old-school -style sense of humor.

[notnmeyer]

> The name Pies (pronounced "p-yes")

oh come on

[garciasn]

Almost 20 years ago now I worked for a company that sat a group of about 25 of us down to talk about their latest survey named...CRMPIES.

Everyone looked at me like I was insane as I sat there chuckling. Thank you for bringing back that unfortunate memory.

[hsbauauvhabzb]

If you don’t think whoever named it that way wasn’t based, you’re almost as naive as your coworkers :P

[tete]

Everyone needs to have made a web framework. Everyone needs to have made a programming language. Everyone needs to have made a supervisor. Everyone has to have made a container manager. Everyone needs to have made a text editor.

[binaryturtle]

Absolutely. I recently wrote my first compiler to get it off the bucket list… brainf*ck compiler/interpreter #100010134 or such? :-) Well… it was a fun half hour.

[wakawaka28]

I disagree with all of this. If you have time and interest, or a real need, then go ahead. I've never met a programmer who's made all of these things in my 20 years of programming, and that includes PhDs, professors, and old graybeards about to retire.

[killerstorm]

What's the value of making a supervisor? It seems to be mostly about gluing together some system APIs.