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 GNU Pies README
-Copyright (C) 2009-2013 Sergey Poznyakoff
+Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Sergey Poznyakoff
 See the end of file for copying conditions.
 
 * Introduction
@@ -26,22 +26,31 @@ component terminates, pies tries to restarts it.  Its configuration allows
 to specify actions other than simple restart, depending on the exit code
 of the component.
 
+GNU Pies gives you complete control over the execution environment of
+each component.  This includes modifying shell environment, running
+components with the given user privileges, etc.  The standard error
+and/or output of any component may be redirected either to a disk
+file or to syslog.
+
 GNU Pies supports a wide variety of component types.  For example, it can
 bind the standard input and output of a component to a network socket,
-which makes pies a replacement for the inetd utility.  Pies implements
+which makes pies a replacement for the inetd utility. Pies implements
 powerful access control lists, which are especially useful with such
 inetd-style components.
 
 GNU Pies can also be used to manage MeTA1 (http://meta1.org) components.
-Moreover, it is able to use MeTA1 configuration file directly, so that
-migration from the native mcp utility to pies does not require any
-efforts.
 
-GNU Pies gives you complete control over the execution environment of
-each component.  This includes modifying shell environment, running
-components with the given user privileges, etc.  The standard error
-and/or output of any component may be redirected either to a disk
-file or to syslog.
+To facilitate its use, GNU Pies is able to parse configuration files
+in various formats, such as traditional inetd.conf, or meta1.conf.  So
+that, e.g. migration from the native mcp utility to pies does not
+require any efforts.
+
+Finally, GNU Pies can be used as init process - the first process
+started during booting.  In this case, the configuration can be
+supplied both in the traditional inittab or in native Pies formats.
+
+The running GNU Pies instance can be queried and reconfigured on the
+fly via a TCP socket.
 
 * Building
 
@@ -64,7 +73,7 @@ Send bug reports to <bug-pies@gnu.org.ua>.
 
 * Copyright information:
 
-Copyright (C) 2009-2013 Sergey Poznyakoff
+Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Sergey Poznyakoff
 
    Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
    of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the