Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 11:38:03 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS permissions &c. Message-ID: <199701121838.LAA25821@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970112003853.davidn@labs.blaze.net.au> from "David Nugent" at Jan 12, 97 00:38:53 am
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> > What are the current ideas of a SysV init? :-) > > Shoot first and ask questions later? :-) > > Seriously, I've used sysv for many years, and grew to quickly despise > the sysv approach. It does have some good sides, but, for example, > Sun's tree of symlinks to init/shutdown scripts is definitely an > overkill. This really depends on whether you expect to install third party commercial software, or not, doesn't it? Third party commercial software needs an interface for inserting tasks into the startup/shutdown mechanism such that it's possible for the tasks to be added/removed without post-processing rc files, since if only one vendor out of 200 vendors screws this up, your system is screwed entirely. It doesn't hurt that the mechanism shoul;d also guarantee ordering for what has been traditionally called "layered software products". Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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