On Jan 6, 2008 2:31 PM, Nils Philippsen <nphilipp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 17:48 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 10:44 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy wrote: > > > and almost always putting at least some code in shared > > > memory space, asking for Python in particular is not unreasonable. > > I could not disagree more - To me any init-script system requiring > > anything outside of what POSIX requires is a mis-conception and flawed > > design. > > How is that? I guess if we looked hard enough then we'd find that even > today we use things outside of POSIX to get the machine going, things > which we can't do without. > > Just because something is an established standard, it's not necessarily > sufficient: One of the problems we have with SysV style init scripts are > the numerous forks and execs which are costly. I don't see how we could > solve that problem while using shell (or other tools included in POSIX). > Granted, we could source the init scripts from one master script to > avoid that, but then we'd be quicker in a cesspool of clashing global > variables or one badly written script killing the whole boot process > than we'd want to imagine. If I'm just being unimaginative, I'd be > interested in how this problem can be solved while limiting oneself to > what POSIX offers. Thanks, you said it far better than I could have :) -Yaakov -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
