On Mon, 07.01.08 17:05, Enrico Scholz (enrico.scholz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >> I can not remember how long there are discussions about replacing > >> RH's initsystem (perhaps 5-6 years), and nothing happened. Other > >> distributions implemented more (upstart, syslog-ng) or less (suse, > > > > Is syslog-ng really an init system > > uups, I meant 'initng'. Everytime I hear someone mentioning initng I get a headache. They got almost everything wrong you can get wrong in an init system. The kept the worst things from SysV (such as numerical "runlevels"), and added the worst things they could find in other people's software. Like the braindeadness to make everything a shared object, including stuff like executing chdir(). Can you believe that? They have a "plugin" to change a directory which consists of 100 lines or code or so. Unbelievable... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
