On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 08:17:35PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 07:20:02PM +0100, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Specs/RaringUpstartUserSessions > > This is actually going to be very interesting to see if they are able > to extend upstart in such a way that they can use it for session > management similar to systemd-loginctl.
While reading a bit on it, I found this passage: > By making use of a Linux-specific prctl(2) call, we effectively tie > Upstart to systems running with a Linux kernel. This is a major > restriction, but porting to other systems is already complicated by > the fact that even the BSDs do not provide a full POSIX environment > (missing "waitid(2)" for example). So it's not just systemd which runs into the situation that at some point they have to drop support for non-Linux kernels because they need a Linux-specific feature, in this case prctl. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121124192951.ga6...@physik.fu-berlin.de
