On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 04:58:43 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I hope this isn't too off-topic. > > Doesn't usually stop anyone. > > > There has been some talk about a makefile-style replacement for the > > sysv init mechanism. Has this been worked out in any detail? > > Not to my knowledge. Certainly no specific planning to design or > implement anything of the kind has been done by the Hurd developers. > > > I suppose the basic idea is to generalise run levels with > > dependencies: before a service is started, all the services that it > > depends on are started, and before a service is stopped, all the > > services that depend on it are stopped. But: > > That's the idea that makes sense to me. Everything further you ask about > verges on more detailed than I think anyone has clearly worked through. > If you wanted to work it through and implement it, that would be a > fine thing.
Note that there _is_ some prior art. Head to <http://www.google.com/> and search for: "mastodon orc init" The relevant bit: [folder.gif] The rc subsystem The nicest thing about my custom distribution is that it works on a capability-based set of rc files. Normally, System 5-style rc directories contain a set of files prefixed with Snumber and Knumber so that /etc/rc can properly start things up and tear things down. Well, I don't like that; instead, my configuration files tell the rc script what services they need to have running, and the need program goes out and starts the appropriate daemons (and makes the appropriate entries in a database, so these services can be shut down in an orderly fashion.) <a href= "http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/Mastodon/rc.d";> The rc subsystem</a> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/lsf.html> Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?
