On Wed, 26 May 2010, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 08:54 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: >> >> On Wed, 26 May 2010, Simo Sorce wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >> +20 million. >> >> I couldn't agree more. They need to be scripts, considering how seldom >> they actually run it makes even less sense to chase down optimization in >> them by making them compiled. > > This is a nice example of how discussions on this list go off into the > weeds in no time. > > 'compiling initscripts' ? come on, that is just silly. Nobody is > proposing such a thing. > > It is completely clear that there needs to be some flexibility in any > init system to cater to real-world services. > > But it is also clear that there is a difference between gobs of shell > script and nice and clean files like the ones you find in /etc/init. > great - then I'm happy to be mistaken. thanks for clearing it up. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
