On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Also: > Description=D-Bus System Bus This seems unnecessary. Can we default to the name of the script? If this isn't translated, I don't see how it's more interesting than just "dbus". > Requires=basic.target sockets.target dbus.socket > After=basic.target sockets.target dbus.socket What does this goop mean and why is it necessary? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
