From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 4 01:38:10 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA16500 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 01:38:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA16493 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 01:38:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA27233; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 02:38:09 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd027227; Thu Feb 4 02:38:03 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA10082; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 02:38:03 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902040938.CAA10082@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: more modular rc/init/uninit system... To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 09:38:01 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dhw@whistle.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36B79273.C201B5AD@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at Feb 3, 99 09:04:03 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 1) Links? That's awful. Configuration information should be put in a > FILE. Uh, we await your diffs to phkmalloc. Be sure to run them by Poul so he can reject them. 8-). > 2) Run levels are flawed. They are "one-dimensional", and the > problem they have to solve is not. (Refer to PPP vs Network > problem). Run states resolve this. > 3) It makes something simple (specifying a dependency) difficult, by > having the manager figure out the dependency graph and needlessly > introduce opportunity for inconsistency (like startup/shutdown > scripts not matched). > > This is precisely what should NOT be implemented, imho. It's actually two dimensional, since it includes directory order vs. level (state) specific director{y|ies}. But it doesn't solve all the problems, no. Just all the ones BSD has that SysV doesn't. 8-p. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message