Init : someone could comment this ?

[Rudolf Kastl]

On Jan 7, 2008 6:35 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> 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"),

What do you mean with numerical runlevels? does "default" for the
standard runlevel look "numerical" to you?

 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
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