From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 6 07:06:00 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA17415 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 07:06:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (rwwa.com [198.115.177.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA17409 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 07:05:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from witr@rwwa.com) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (localhost.rwwa.com [127.0.0.1]) by spooky.rwwa.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA29774; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 10:09:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from witr@rwwa.com) Message-Id: <199902061509.KAA29774@spooky.rwwa.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Terry Lambert cc: witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow), dcs@newsguy.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more modular rc/init/uninit system... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 06 Feb 1999 01:27:16 GMT." <199902060127.SAA23350@usr02.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 10:09:20 -0500 From: Robert Withrow Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG tlambert@primenet.com said: :- How do you propose to solve the Solaris binary compatability problem :- for commercial Solaris applications that install components into the :- rc.d directories The same way all of these kinds of problems are solved. By having a port for the app that fixes the install.. :- in order to get them run at the correct time and in :- the correct order for dependent services requirements? Well, that's the problem, isn't it? How can they ever be sure that they are running things in the "correct order" unless they have global knowlege of every possible application that requires startup services, which they can never have. This is the fundamentally broken part of the SYSV startup services design. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA, witr@rwwa.COM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message