On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 20:19 +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 03:02:54PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Well, if your definition of "initialisation" is just "getting > something that can boot and shut down without requiring journal > restores or fsck", then I don't see why Edward is calling rc from his > script, instead than just a shell. > > The truth is that you need somebody that mounts filesystems, invites > syslog, cron, and a few more guys to the party, loads all the modules > you need to actually use your hardware, configures a bit of the > hardware you got, sets the locale, sets the keyboard layout to your > preferred one, and so on and so forth. This is what is normally > called an "init system", which is the guy that takes care of getting > the system in such a state that allows you to use it *comfortably*, > without the need to manually replay the configuration again and > again, at each reboot.
Well, talking in terms of #pid numbers, all the above can be taken care of by a #pid2 process, right? Regardless of what you call an init system or not, that's irrelevant and up to interpretations. I fully agree with Steve. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
