From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 7 11:27:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03343 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 11:27:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp3.erols.com (smtp3.erols.com [207.172.3.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03338 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 11:27:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shmit@natasya.noc.erols.net) Received: from natasya.noc.erols.net (natasya.noc.erols.net [207.172.25.236]) by smtp3.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA13538; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 14:26:58 -0500 (EST) Received: (from shmit@localhost) by natasya.noc.erols.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA01953; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 14:26:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19981207142658.P26279@kublai.com> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 14:26:58 -0500 From: Brian Cully To: tj-fbsd@funbox.demon.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysconfig, or, the SysV vs. BSD init wars Reply-To: shmit@kublai.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from tj-fbsd@funbox.demon.co.uk on Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 03:54:17PM +0000 X-Sender: If your mailer pays attention to this, it's broken. X-PGP-Info: finger shmit@kublai.com for my public key. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 03:54:17PM +0000, tj-fbsd@funbox.demon.co.uk wrote: > However, I find myself thinking that shell scripts (or a monolithic > script) are very flexible, easy to alter and to check, and more than > adequate for the job. For my part, I don't see the necessity (or, I'm > afraid, the desirability) for changing from script(s). The problem with shell scripts is that doing dependency checking and DAG traversal is difficult (to say the least). There's also no good way of grouping things that belong together (short of `linux_exec', `linux_foo', etc.,.). Plus, you have a hard time turning a shell script into a replacement for init (which is something that you can do with what I've done). I wish I could have kept the shell, but it's not really powerful enough for what I want to do. -- Brian Cully Macintosh -- we might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end. -- Douglas Adams, on the Y2K problem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message