Hi Ludo, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> Hey Maxim, > > Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> skribis: > >> I haven't yet looked at the code, but looking at the bigger picture, >> wouldn't it be a useful behavior to have for Guile itself? Perhaps not, >> as there already exists a Guile init manager (GNU Shepherd), but if it's >> something relatively simple/compact to implement, perhaps it could find >> its place in Guile itself, just like Bash implements correctly signal >> handling when used as a PID 1 (if I'm not mistaken). > > Bash is a shell whereas Guile is a programming language, and to me that > makes a big difference: we want to be able to implement init systems in > Guile just like we implement them in C, and that means we need full > control over what to do when running as PID 1. That’s why I wouldn’t do > anything special in Guile itself (nor in libc). That sounds reasonable. > The patch I submitted fixes our immediate problem with build processes, > so I’d like to have it in ‘core-updates’. > > Hopeful as I am, I see us merging ‘core-updates’ in the first half of > January. Ambition! :-) Cool, let's see if we can get it done! -- Thanks, Maxim
