Upstart 0.6.3 coming to a rawhide near you

[Sir Gallantmon]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:

> Miroslav Lichvar (mlichvar at redhat.com) said:
> > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:10:34PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Upstart0.6.0
> >
> > The features highlight list has:
> >   Communication with the init daemon over D-Bus.
> >
> > > Questions? Comments?
> >
> > Does this mean that running dbus will be required to reboot/shutdown
> > the system?
>
> No. The init daemon speaks the dbus protocol, and can be communicated
> with over the system daemon. But it can also be talked to directly.
>
> Bill
>
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Why aren't the sysVinit scripts being ported over to native upstart scripts?
I thought the reason why upstart was adopted was to be able to utilize the
benefits of native upstart scripts (event based daemon handling, etc.)?
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