Fedora Goals -- LSB-compliant/ideal init for FC5+

[Patrick Barnes]

Chris Ricker wrote:

>On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Bill Nottingham wrote:
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>
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>>Bryan J. Smith (b.j.smith at ieee.org) said:
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>>>On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 16:55 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
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>>>
>>>>Well, there are some plans here. They don't usually involve bash,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Well, I'm half-way decent at system-level C (even some real-time
>>>experience), as well as Perl, but no Python though (one of these
>>>days).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>though, and generally consist of migrating to a completely different
>>>>framework, with support for legacy installation concerns such
>>>>as LSB compatibility and the current init-style scripts.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>So the base won't be traditional System-V init?
>>>
>>>
>>Correct. (Well, the core *init* under everything may or may not
>>change; but it certainly won't be the same interface from userland.)
>>
>>
>
>Is this going to be based on / similar to anything existing, or something
>new entirely?
>
>So far, everything you've said is sounding a *lot* like the redone
>services stuff in Solaris 10. The main difference would just be the use of
>D-BUS for communication rather than the Solaris-specific stuff SMF
>uses (svc.startd, mainly)....
>
>See <http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1985/6mhm8o5n0?a=view> for an
>overview of svcs, svcadm, svccfg, etc
>
>As an added benefit, the architecture Sun has for all this really has
>drastically reduced boot times (which I know is always a complaint people
>seem to have on Linux for some reason). Solaris 9 -> Solaris 10 went from
>~3 minutes to ~25 seconds to boot (from the OBP to login prompt) on one of
>my workstations, for example
>
>later,
>chris
>
>
>

It will probably be a new implementation, but might contain code or
ideas from existing projects.

See the (new) wiki page at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FCNewInit for
an outline of what's on the table.

--
Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes
nman64 at n-man.com

www.n-man.com
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