.. _glossary:

Glossary
========

.. glossary::
   :sorted:

   daemontools
     A `process control system by D.J. Bernstein
     <http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html>`_.

   runit
     A `process control system <http://smarden.org/runit/>`_.

   launchd
     A `process control system used by Apple
     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchd>`_ as process 1 under Mac
     OS X.

   umask
     Abbreviation of *user mask*: sets the file mode creation mask of
     the current process.  See `http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask
     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask>`_.

   Superlance
     A package which provides various event listener implementations
     that plug into Supervisor which can help monitor process memory
     usage and crash status: `http://pypi.python.org/pypi/superlance
     <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/superlance>`_.