* Laurent Bercot <ska-supervision_at_skarnet.org> [20140723 23:17]:
> On 23/07/2014 20:16, Wayne Marshall wrote:
> >In the best of un!x traditions, a stronger system may in fact be one
> >that recognizes the fundamental differences between the two
> >functions, and provides purpose-specific solutions for each of them.
>
> This is the approach I have with s6. However, since I wanted to keep
> s6 system-agnostic and, as you said, initialization is
> system-dependent, I did not provide an out-of-the-box /sbin/init - and
> it put too much work in the hands of packagers. I intend to work on a
> s6-init package, which will unfortunately have to be Linux-specific,
> to cover this flaw. The forked one-time initialization process can
> safely be left to distribution packagers, just like /etc/runit/1 is;
> but the tricky /sbin/init has to be provided in order for an
> integrated init+supervision system to be usable.
What "tricky" responsabilities are you thinking of for /sbin/init that
would make it Linux specific? AFAICT, all that's being refered to as
initialization in this thread is only system dependent as in "userland"
dependent, not "kernel or (g)libc" dependent.
As I see it, /etc/runit/1 or /etc/rc are pretty much the same...
qvb
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pica
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