Comments on: Init HackFest / New init systems in Debian

By: Gunnar Wolf

Gunnar Wolf — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:14:54 +0000

[...] Leaving just as the discussion gets started is bad, yes… But I’m only now reading Erich’s and Sven’s follow-ups. Both (as well as some comments in my blog) ask why not integrating the startup links [...]

By: sven

sven — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:31:53 +0000

Ben: This is odd. When I logged in to the Wiki before writing my Blog post, I did check the page to make sure the “protected page” message was still there after I logged in. And it was. Today though, I could edit the page. And will probably do so this evening.

By: Ben Hutchings

Ben Hutchings — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:59:27 +0000

The wiki page is not specially protected. You have to be logged in to edit any page.

By: Joachim Breitner

Joachim Breitner — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:20:20 +0000

I basically agree (as already commented on Gunnars blog). But some remark to your proposal:

I wonder if all these need to be script snippets. After all we also want to have fast init systems that donâ€™t spawn lots of shells. Therefore, these should be _either_ script snippets (for complicated cases) or some kind of even higher meta data. Examples:

* Pre-Check could list files to check for
* run could just name a binary and parameters
* Probably more

Also, for daemons that support the run-scheme, no start/stop/status should be needed. If the init system relies on that scheme (eg sys-v-init) it can be derived from the run snippet.

Iâ€™m looking forward to what becomes of this!

Greetings, nomeata