Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > Let me briefly discuss different alternatives here:
As a general remark, I wonder how much redundancy could be removed by "compiling" the init scripts. I.e., - resolve dependencies - eliminate tests with results known at install time, e.g., - case start) - if [ -e config_file ]; then use_config_file ... - if [ -e init_state_file ]; then ... - if [ -x /bin/thing ]; then ... - eliminate multiple sourcing of helper functions (if collapsing the whole thing into a single script) Might be hard to structure them in a way that allows for this sort of compilation, though. Also, init alternatives may already go in this direction. Another user space time killer to look at would be udevstart. Perhaps a device table would be better for the well-known constant device files. Or maybe even just pre-create them in the rootfs. - Werner
