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@@ -69,9 +69,9 @@ Restarting service from itself
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To support self-restarting services, winsw exposes `WINSW_EXECUTABLE` environment variable into the forked process, which refers to the full path of `winsw.exe` that's managing the service.
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To restart the service from within, execute `%WINSW_EXECUTABLE% restart!`. Note that you are invoking `restart!` command, not `restart` command. This hidden command is a flavor of the `restart` operation,
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-except that winsw creates another winsw process in a separate process group, and restarts the service from there.
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+where winsw creates another winsw process in a separate process group, and restarts the service from there.
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-This additional indirection is necessary, because Windows Service Control Manager (SCM) will kill child processes recursively when it stops the service. SCM doesn't provide restart operation
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+This additional indirection is necessary because Windows Service Control Manager (SCM) will kill child processes recursively when it stops a service. SCM doesn't provide the restart operation
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as an atomic operation either, so winsw implements restart by a sequence of stop and start. The 2nd winsw process in a separate process group ensures that winsw can survive this massacre to
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execute the start call.
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Kohsuke Kawaguchi