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            1 .Dd February 2, 2015
            2 .Dt RESPAWN 1
            3 .Os ubase
            4 .Sh NAME
            5 .Nm respawn
            6 .Nd spawn the given command repeatedly
            7 .Sh SYNOPSIS
            8 .Nm
            9 .Op Fl l Ar fifo
           10 .Op Fl d Ar N
           11 .Ar cmd Op Ar args...
           12 .Sh DESCRIPTION
           13 .Nm
           14 spawns the given
           15 .Ar cmd
           16 in a new session repeatedly.
           17 .Sh OPTIONS
           18 .Bl -tag -width Ds
           19 .It Fl d
           20 Set the delay between invocations of \fIcmd\fR.  It defaults to 0.
           21 .It Fl l
           22 Listen on the specified
           23 .Ar fifo
           24 for writes. For each write spawn a new instance of
           25 .Ar cmd .
           26 This can be used in conjunction with a process supervisor to restart a
           27 particular program. The
           28 .Fl l
           29 and
           30 .Fl d
           31 options are incompatible. All writes are discarded.
           32