On Wed, 26 May 2010 12:42:13 +0200 drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Casey Dahlin <cdahlin@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 05:45:07PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > >> On Tue, 25.05.10 10:21, Casey Dahlin (cdahlin@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > [...] > > 3) Cutting down on the forking by replacing some of the shell > > scripts... cool 3a) With C code... really? > > This does make a lot of sense to me, initscripts being scripts is a > major slowdown factor > by itself. > > It is not like you want to edit the scripts all the time, so there is > no reason for them being scripts. While you don't edit them *all* the time, it is something that is done regularly, and it is something most admins can do with ease. Turn them in a C program and you left admins out in the cold, most of them. I would be very, very wary of accepting a C "init script". An unmanageable system is a useless system. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel