On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 02:31:25AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Heya! > > Since a long time systemd has been shipping with two-way compat > support for /dev/initctl, and I am tempted to remove it. Before I do > so, I'd like some input on the relevance of this interface: I'd guess that debian might care, as they are trying to keep bidirectional compat. Apart from that, meh, probably nobody. Let's see what they say.
Zbyszek > a) there's support in systemctl to reboot the system by sending the > right bytes to /dev/initctl as fallback, so that you can reboot a > sysvinit system with "systemctl reboot". > > b) There's a mini-daemon "systemd-initctl.service" that is > fifo-activated on /dev/initctl, and forwards reboot requests from > old sysvinit clients to systemd. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel