On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 13:27:08 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 8 May 2010 11:47:40 +0200, Julien Cristau > <[email protected]> wrote: > >As far as I'm concerned, "faster boot" is irrelevant. Using an init > >daemon that actually does its job of supervising services, and lets us > >get rid of most of the stupidity and boilerplate of init scripts, otoh, > >is overdue. > > What is so bad about init scripts?
- no supervision - bloated, as every action need to be implemented in the script, and therefore slow and error prone - no adjustable user permissions - no clean evironment Just to mention some of the issues. I don't know if upstart solves all of them, though. Regards, Tino -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
