.. _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>_.