Init : someone could comment this ?

Casey Dahlin cjdahlin at ncsu.edu
Mon Jan 7 17:35:39 UTC 2008


Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Mon, 07.01.08 17:05, Enrico Scholz (enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de) wrote:
>
>   
>>>> I can not remember how long there are discussions about replacing
>>>> RH's initsystem (perhaps 5-6 years), and nothing happened.  Other
>>>> distributions implemented more (upstart, syslog-ng) or less (suse,
>>>>         
>>> Is syslog-ng really an init system
>>>       
>> uups, I meant 'initng'.
>>     
>
> Everytime I hear someone mentioning initng I get a headache.
>
> They got almost everything wrong you can get wrong in an init
> system. The kept the worst things from SysV (such as numerical
> "runlevels"), and added the worst things they could find in other
> people's software. Like the braindeadness to make everything a shared
> object, including stuff like executing chdir(). Can you believe that?
> They have a "plugin" to change a directory which consists of 100 lines
> or code or so. Unbelievable...
>
> Lennart
>
>   
This is all very useful.

I am proposing a session at FUDcon to explore the options, and to 
definitively pick a solution. Hopefully the following day's hackfest 
will see direct effort toward implementing a solution.




More information about the fedora-devel-list mailing list