> But if it takes you where you don't want to go, it can be forked. It has > happened before with bigger projects. That's true but no one can do that on a whim and apparently (Redhat Dev) the code is rediculously hard to follow and review. I believe the ones who would do that will likely just start from scratch or use an existing shell based init and are more likely to fork upstart as a basis with systemd as a reference. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________