Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:16:40 +0800 From: David Xu <bsddiy@163.net> To: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net>, Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re[2]: import NetBSD rc system Message-ID: <1911008720.20010612091640@163.net> In-Reply-To: <3B25531D.501B0B05@bellatlantic.net> References: <20010611201243.B77956@laptop.6bone.nl> <20010611174717.A77956@laptop.6bone.nl> <1795096378.20010611154930@163.net> <3B2484EA.B1F04812@DougBarton.net> <20010611174717.A77956@laptop.6bone.nl> <200106111800.f5BI0il25446@billy-club.village.org> <200106111827.f5BIR2V38517@harmony.village.org> <3B25531D.501B0B05@bellatlantic.net>
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Hello Sergey, Tuesday, June 12, 2001, 7:24:13 AM, you wrote: SB> Warner Losh wrote: >> >> In message <20010611201243.B77956@laptop.6bone.nl> Mark Santcroos writes: >> : Can it be called SysV style? Or not seperated in that way? >> : (I must say, the big ugly rc thing is the only thing I don't like about >> : FreeBSD, I'm very much in favor of the SysV style init. But thats another >> : war ;) >> >> It specifically isn't SysV style. It works. SysV style encodes the >> startup order in the file NAMES. The NetBSD rc system encodes it in >> the files themselves. A big improvement. SB> Or a drawback. Encoding the order in the names makes changing SB> the order or disabling some files easy, without any neccessity to SB> edit the contents of the files. SB> Though I haven't seen the NetBSD approach, maybe it actually is better. SB> -SB It is based a concept: dependence, it's a more advance idea than SysV, for example: NFS relies on network, if network is not started, and if you start NFS, it will automatic start network, if network starts failure, NFS start is aborted. of course it has SysV capability, you can start and stop individual daemon or subsystem : for example: $/etc/rc.d/nfs stop $/etc/rc.d/nfs start -- David Xu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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