[Thomas Hood] > For information... > > On https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReplacementInit, ManuLopezIbanez recently > added this text: > >> You may wish to talk with Mandriva people about >> http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-10/msg00256.php >> prcsys/pinit. It is not as powerful as initng; however, it is >> not such aggressive change and it may even go into Dapper and >> definitely into Dapper+1.
Ah, very interesting. I do not like initng because it do not use the existing init.d-scripts, and pinit seem to use them. :) But I'm not sure how pinit is different from the startpar/insserv combination, aka reordering the boot using dependency info and running all scripts in parallel while serializing the script output. It seem to be equivalent. Insserv seem to be more complete when it comes to parsing the LSB headers, and it does not require an extra flag to enable parallel execution. But it is great to see more users of the LSB dependency info. I hope we can get the remaining scripts in Debian to include such info soon. As for Ubuntu, I have not figured out what their problem with sysvinit is. The current sysvinit in Debian can run thing in parallel with serialized output if enabled in /etc/default/rcS. No need to throw out sysvinit to get that feature. _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
