Re: Init : someone could comment this ?

[Enrico Scholz <enrico scholz informatik tu-chemnitz de>]

Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin ncsu edu> writes:

>> no; as already written, modern initsystems use non-forking daemons
>> where such checks are not needed anymore.
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> It is up to the designer of the app whether it forks or not, and while
> there may be an argument that one way is better or worse, the init
> maintainers cannot guarantee the behavior of that which their system
> must start.

1. most (yes, I have numbers) daemons have some kind of --do-not-fork
   switch

2. most (sorry, I do not have numbers there) daemons have some kind of
   bugzilla where you can report patches and enhancements



Enrico