-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:33:21 +0000 Eric MSP Veith <[email protected]> escribió: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 05:18:03AM -0300, Ismael Luceno wrote: > > El Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:33:42 +0400 > > I don't care much about that because we can't support those > > restricted environments anyway. > > <...> > > But there might be problems related to message queues that I'm not > > taking into account... > > It's obviously an elegant feature, that's true. Using two message > queues will give us bi-directional communication. We can do > multiplexing, if we want to, using IDs or something like that. > +1, we can use transaction IDs.
> Whether you want to support embedded devices or not is mostly not a > decision based on technology, but on our/your preferences. I, > personnally, think we shouldn't knowingly place obstacles in the path > of those who want to use InitNG on an embedded devices, but that's > 100% up to you. :-) I don't see POSIX mq as an obstacle. Probably a slimmer implementation cloud be made if needed, and we can even ignore priorities, but it's just a few kb... > The only thing that I fear we loose is some bit of backwards > compatibility with the old init, i.e. the possiblity to control > InitNG through the old "shutdown" tool. That's all. We already are incompatible. In fact, this can be an excuse to implement a better emulation layer ;). - -- Ismael Luceno -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqKdWEACgkQ/mxY0+yOXJolPACdGapSlMlxwSj5l+wOOmfQw1LD cUkAoNr3YEgzj9G7x2PNCc1ugbIy53+4 =HfYw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- _______________________________________________ Initng mailing list [email protected] http://jw.dyndns.org/mailman/listinfo/initng
