Re: S6 integration in mainstream linux distributions

2019-03-17 Thread Casper Ti. Vector
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 02:33:50PM +0100, Oliver Schad wrote: > We found the project "slew"[1] which offers a nice way to manage oneshot > services, cause execline doesn't offer the things we want to re-use > today. A history note: once a friend of mine, when introduced to execline, told me about

Re: S6 integration in mainstream linux distributions

2019-03-17 Thread Casper Ti. Vector
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 02:33:50PM +0100, Oliver Schad wrote: > The next question was the long-term strategy with systemd: we have 2 > approaches > > 1) mix systemd (PID 1) to use the boot phase (especially one shots) > and later (after system initialization) use s6 to manage all services. > 2)

Re: S6 integration in mainstream linux distributions

2019-03-17 Thread Oliver Schad
On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 21:30:36 +0800 "Casper Ti. Vector" wrote: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 02:33:50PM +0100, Oliver Schad wrote: > [...] > > A history note: once a friend of mine, when introduced to execline, > told me about the Thompson shell [1]. The Wikipedia page said, "by > the 1975

Re: S6 integration in mainstream linux distributions

2019-03-17 Thread Casper Ti. Vector
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 03:21:43PM +0100, Oliver Schad wrote: > I completely understand the purpose of execline but for server systems, > which allocates more than 1 GB RAM regulary and running on modern x86 > CPUs, saving such resources is not needed for us(!). Which is also why I usually