Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 19:00:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: bs@adimus.de (Benedikt Stockebrand) Cc: syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au, pechter@shell.monmouth.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SysV Init Message-ID: <199811231900.MAA22251@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <sa767caogtn.fsf@adimus.de> from "Benedikt Stockebrand" at Nov 20, 98 10:26:44 am
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> > On Thursday, 19th November 1998, Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote: > > > > >This is one area where SysV is superior. > > What's "superior"? Just additional functionality? Then it definitely > *is* superior. Easier handling? Then it's a big step in the wrong > direction. Which init is "superior" depends on your particular > needs. And SysV init has been developed to cover someones needs. Right. For example, if FreeBSD wanted to become the Oracle "appliance" operating system, as alluded to in Larry Ellison's COMDEX keynote, wherein he mentioned FreeBSD *first* in a list of candidate OS's: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,28816,00.html then FreeBSD should probably work on bettering the SMP support, and on providing the necessary rc file hooks to allow third-party daemons that require system startup/shutdown notification (like, oh, say, Oracle?) to drop in and function. Let's see... what rc file hooks would a large UNIX database vendor be looking for? > Actually, making a SysV init use standard BSD-style rc scripts isn't > *that* much of a problem. And I strongly propose to keep the rc > scripts BSD-style because they're usually easier to understand > especially by newcomers. And especially since newcomers don't modify the things because they're afraid to, so it doesn't matter if they understand them or not... 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
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