Re: [DNG] make-rc: A parallel (as in make(1)) alternative to sysv-rc

2022-01-10 Thread Steve Litt
Kaz Kylheku \(gmake\) via Dng said on Sat, 08 Jan 2022 11:20:23 -0800 >On 2022-01-08 03:43, mirabilos wrote: >> Bah. How often do you boot a unix? > >Boot time optimization is very important in some embedded applications. > >A powered-up device is expected to come into service ASAP basically. >

Re: [DNG] make-rc: A parallel (as in make(1)) alternative to sysv-rc

2022-01-09 Thread Kaz Kylheku (gmake) via Dng
On 2022-01-08 03:43, mirabilos wrote: Bah. How often do you boot a unix? Boot time optimization is very important in some embedded applications. A powered-up device is expected to come into service ASAP basically. Some devices are powered up every time whatever they are embedded into is

Re: [DNG] make-rc: A parallel (as in make(1)) alternative to sysv-rc

2022-01-09 Thread mirabilos
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > Most of you I added you to this email because I found you on the maintainers > list for the Debian sysv-rc package (now dead for a long time). > I also CCd Devuan, since I hope you'll be interested in this little project of > mine. Not

Re: [DNG] make-rc: A parallel (as in make(1)) alternative to sysv-rc

2022-01-06 Thread onefang
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, or something... I wrote an implementation of sysv-init based on the LSB spec. This was back when the LSB spec was a thing. Not even looked at it since, but let's see if I can correctly recall some of the features. Written in C. Fully implemented the

Re: [DNG] make-rc: A parallel (as in make(1)) alternative to sysv-rc

2022-01-06 Thread Steve Litt
Back in 2014 I suggested a solution using make, in order to address dependencies. I didn't closely read your scripts or the make file, but the only way I can imagine this new system would speed boot is if it ran things in the background and found ways to see when dependencies finished. Otherwise,

Re: [DNG] make-rc: A parallel (as in make(1)) alternative to sysv-rc

2022-01-05 Thread Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) via Dng
Hi Adrian, On 1/5/22 14:42, Adrian Zaugg wrote: Hi Alejandro In der Nachricht vom Wednesday, 5 January 2022 03:03:53 CET schrieb Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) via Dng: So, if the problem is that the rc scripts don't run parallel and don't know about exact dependencies from each-other, let's

Re: [DNG] make-rc: A parallel (as in make(1)) alternative to sysv-rc

2022-01-05 Thread Adrian Zaugg
Hi Alejandro In der Nachricht vom Wednesday, 5 January 2022 03:03:53 CET schrieb Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) via Dng: > So, if the problem is that the rc scripts don't run parallel and don't > know about exact dependencies from each-other, let's rewrite that part rc.scripts do run in parallel

[DNG] make-rc: A parallel (as in make(1)) alternative to sysv-rc

2022-01-04 Thread Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) via Dng
Hi all, Most of you I added you to this email because I found you on the maintainers list for the Debian sysv-rc package (now dead for a long time). I also CCd Devuan, since I hope you'll be interested in this little project of mine. I also CCd linux-man@, since there's not many people