On Wed, 26.05.10 09:07, Adam Williamson (awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 12:42 +0200, drago01 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. > > I beg to differ. I've had to create or modify initscripts quite often, > either as a sysadmin or a packager. If this is now going to require C > coding skills, I'm not going to be able to do it. I don't think it's > safe to assume that everyone who needs to write or modify an initscript > is going to know C. What about people who write apps that need > initscripts in some other language? THERE ARE NO PLANS TO SHIP COMPILED INIT SCRIPTS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT! The plan is to reduce what is currenlty done in files like /etc/init.d/messagebus to files like http://0pointer.de/public/dbus.service. And those files you can edit just fine, and reconfigure. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
