On 05/26/2010 12:07 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> 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? It could work out if systemd provided access to a system() equivalent which could then execute an arbitrary script. I think one good argument for redoing initscripts is that they are so repetitive: most of the content is fairly standard: initialization, argument parsing, case $1 in start) stop), etc etc. ; stuff that might as well be done in the common framework. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
