On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 17:10 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > > > > Also, there's this weird "running daemons are bad" mentality which I'm > > not really sure what the right way to approach is. But it's one that > > I'm not sure how true it is in our current world of increasingly moving > > functionality out of the kernel and into userspace in which case you > > have to have something running in addition to the kernel. > > > > Maybe to try some examples -- irqbalance is a daemon and not in the > > kernel anymore[1], does that make it "not useful"? Or for another side, > > various kernel threads are really just daemons... maybe we shouldn't run > > them either? > > > > if you replace useful with necessary in his argument I think it ends up > making more sense. > > If the daemon is not NECESSARY for the task it is fulfilling then why have > it running? So I guess it boils down to how you define "task" then... Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
