Re: Init Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) ) )

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dav
id Scheidt writes:
>On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh writes:
>> 
>> I would really like to see the devd functionality to live in init
>> and at the same time I wouldn't mind if init were taught to keep
>> important programs running, things like sshd, inetd, syslogd and
>> similar should be restarted if they die.
>> 
>> No, I don't want sysV runlevels or the weird shit AIX has.  I'm sure
>> a clean and sensible way can be found, if some mental energies are
>> poured into the problem.
>
>What's wrong with run with system V runlevels?  Other than it's system V and
>everything AT^HUSL did is evil, of course.   

runlevels are a very oldfashioned way to think about things, I don't
want to have one big button which is called "NETWORKING ON/OFF".

We need to be able to dynamically say "keep this puppy alive" and
later "ok, forget about that one from now on".

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
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