-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 24/03/11 22:11, Scott James Remnant wrote: > </>On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:34 PM, James Hunt <james.h...@canonical.com > <mailto:james.h...@canonical.com>> wrote: > >> Clint and I have been hard at work on an "Upstart Cookbook". Although it >> is "early days", we wanted to let you all know we're working on this >> project. Our (still *very* draft!) efforts can be viewed here: >> > Nice work, some comments on the copy of 1-4 below: > > Although Upstart is used on on a number of different Operating > Systems (including Ubuntu, Google's Chromium OS and Google's Chrome > OS), the Ubuntu version is considered the "reference > implementation". This is primarily due to the fact that Upstart was > written specifically for Ubuntu (although this does not mean that it > cannot run on any other Linux-based system). > > > I'd disagree with this. Reference implementation always implies that > other implementations should copy it as much as possible, and Ubuntu is > no way that. As long as Ubuntu still uses a hybrid of Sys V and Upstart > jobs, it can never be a reference implementation. Thanks Scott - cookbook updated on this point.
> > It may be that you mean what the document corresponds to, in which case > use a different term ;-) > > A notification sent by Upstart to all interested parties (either > jobs or other events). They can be thought of as "signals". Events > are /emitted/(created and then broadcast) to the entire Upstart system. > > > Events can be more than just signals, I've made a point of documenting > this recently, so this just confuses the issue. > > * Events are like Signals > <http://upstart.at/2010/12/08/events-are-like-signals/> > * Events are like Methods > <http://upstart.at/2010/12/16/events-are-like-methods/> > * Events are like Hooks > <http://upstart.at/2011/01/06/events-are-like-hooks/> I've further clarified this by creating new sections for each type of event. Note too that the new upstart-events manual page on an Ubuntu Natty system ("man 7 upstart-events") already shows these types in Tables (1) and (2). > > Scott Cheers, James. - -- James Hunt ____________________________________ Ubuntu Foundations Team, Canonical. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2MgS4ACgkQYBWEaHcQG9f7zACdHHjEoXpYa/PMcAxeUTEzjKh3 xyMAnAxPx9zFMpS4y25QaJw1A6lt++HI =9D8o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
