On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 04:27:16AM -0008, cameron wrote: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> > >inotify is used to notice changes to configuration files. This is > >certainly helpful for users, but it isn't critical as "initctl > >reload-configuration" works without it. We could probably do without > >this with the aid of a dpkg trigger. > > inotify use can easily be ported to kqueue within Upstart, or > libinotify-kqueue can be used.
Note that I'm talking about the Hurd here. kqueue is a kFreeBSD thing, as far as I know. (Compare e.g. https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2013/10/msg00021.html) > >prctl (PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER) is used to make SIGCHLD notification > >work properly when Upstart is supervising a user session. This isn't > >a required feature and could easily be compiled out until suitable > >kernel support is available (this actually seems like the sort of > >thing that could be done in the Hurd without too much difficulty, but > >I haven't looked into it). If absent, it might well impede the > >ability to do an advanced desktop port, but it wouldn't get in the > >way of porting the bulk of services. > > Unity, likely the only desktop environment using Upstart as a > session init, is not in Debian. The sacrifice of this functionality > on non-linux systems is perfectly acceptable. While this is true today, we need to look to the future. Using Upstart as a session init is not conceptually tied to Unity in any way, and I expect that other desktop environments will want to use more advanced session supervision soon enough. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
