Re: design of process #1 programs

2014-10-24 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
The Wanderer: That isn't all you gain by it; you also gain the benefit of being > able to use these features no matter which init system you're > running. Which in turn helps avoid lock-in, and enable easier testing > of (or migration to) alternatives, and prevent user surprise, and so > forth.

Re: design of process #1 programs

2014-10-24 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
The Wanderer: At a glance at the sysvinit source, it doesn't look to me like /sbin/init itself does service management, in the "starting, stopping and monitoring services" form; at most, it seems to handle some subset of the "monitoring" part, in the form of noticing when something has died abnor