On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demar...@profusion.mobi> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Marcel Holtmann <mar...@holtmann.org> wrote: >> Hi Gustavo, >> >>> >>> Letting systemd daemonize connmand, as we are already doing, there's no >>> >>> need to have an option "-n" since it will work for both debugging and >>> >>> running it as a daemon. Therefore, just remove the option. >>> >>> >>> >>> Other init systems may use whatever method they have to turn connmand >>> >>> into a >>> >>> daemon. >>> >> >>> >> You are breaking an API by removing an option, now connman will not >>> >> start if user supplies -n option. >>> > >>> > humn? Command line parameters are part of an API? >>> > >>> > We provide script to start with systemd, and that is updated as well. >>> > >>> >> >>> >> Anyway, I do not see much point removing functionality that is useful >>> >> when systemd is not being used. So NACK from me. >>> > >>> > The point here is simplification... there's no point in dealing with >>> > this today - whatever init is starting connmand can turn it into a >>> > daemon. And if doesn't have native support for this (I really hope all >>> > init implementations have), it could use helper programs. >>> >>> Marcel keeps saying he wants to just support systemd systems, then >>> this would make sense. >> >> yes, that is the plan. >> >>> But really, if you do so you can remove the detaching code, not just >>> the option... and more, seems systemd is getting (or got?) backtracing >>> support so it could do the coredump storage and reporting outside of >>> connman. >> >> We can not screw over the developers. So something like debug output >> going to the command line with -n when testing manually needs to be >> supported in one way or another. I need to look into this a bit for ELL
Btw, this is done in patch 2/3. 3/3 only removes the "-n" option and the daemonize code since 2/3 made it superfluous. Lucas De Marchi _______________________________________________ connman mailing list connman@connman.net http://lists.connman.net/listinfo/connman
