Re: Fedora Goals -- LSB-compliant/ideal init for FC5+

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Chris Ricker wrote:

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Bill Nottingham wrote:



Bryan J. Smith (b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx) said:


On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 16:55 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:


Well, there are some plans here. They don't usually involve bash,


Well, I'm half-way decent at system-level C (even some real-time
experience), as well as Perl, but no Python though (one of these
days).



though, and generally consist of migrating to a completely different
framework, with support for legacy installation concerns such
as LSB compatibility and the current init-style scripts.


So the base won't be traditional System-V init?


Correct. (Well, the core *init* under everything may or may not
change; but it certainly won't be the same interface from userland.)



Is this going to be based on / similar to anything existing, or something
new entirely?

So far, everything you've said is sounding a *lot* like the redone
services stuff in Solaris 10. The main difference would just be the use of
D-BUS for communication rather than the Solaris-specific stuff SMF
uses (svc.startd, mainly)....

See <http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1985/6mhm8o5n0?a=view> for an
overview of svcs, svcadm, svccfg, etc

As an added benefit, the architecture Sun has for all this really has
drastically reduced boot times (which I know is always a complaint people
seem to have on Linux for some reason). Solaris 9 -> Solaris 10 went from
~3 minutes to ~25 seconds to boot (from the OBP to login prompt) on one of
my workstations, for example

later,
chris




It will probably be a new implementation, but might contain code or
ideas from existing projects.

See the (new) wiki page at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FCNewInit for
an outline of what's on the table.

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