On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:24:09PM -0700, Kevin Musick wrote: > Thanks for the clarification. Should I read into this that the Hurd > designers envision an alternative startup sequence, departing from the rc#.d > scripts and all of the symbolic links and creative filenaming to something a > little more twentieth-century? Or, is /libexec/rc just a sample startup > script to get someone running who doesn't have a complete distribution > available?
Last thing I heard is that Thomas is envisioning some Makefile-ish start up system. The initial question being: Why should there be any fixed number of runlevels? The Hurd tries to break with as much arbitrary limitations as possible. Designing and coding this is certainly one of the bigger tasks, and of lower priority. Interested people should probably talk to Thomas and Roland about specifics. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
