El Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:07:26 +0000 "Rob Ubuntu Linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> On Nov 29, 2007 5:36 AM, Ismael Luceno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: ... > > > If you look at the list of plugins for init-ng, it's longer than I > > > would have guessed. They made everything into a plugin... > > > > Yeah, almost every functionality in initng is implemented by a > > plug-in; that makes the development of new/experimental features a > > lot easier, just because the new features can coexist with older > > ones. > > But this is feeping creaturism, features to ease implementation of > other features, few of which seem to be justified by end-user > requirements. Very little in initng is about what the user's requirements are, we don't have to stop just because we've reached the point where we satisfied the user's needs. > > Sys Admins are concerned with security and stability. When I look at > a page like http://www.initng.org/wiki/Documents_Pluginsl frankly it > scare the willies ouf of me. For example : > > libchdir.so - Change Directories "Change current workdir before > current launch code is executed" > > What is wrong with having a shell script wrapper, around a daemon to > do that on few occasions it's required? A configuration script > option that causes the chdir(2) in the child on forking as a general > facility, should reuse script parsing code, and add a few lines only, > plus a chdir(2) call in the child after forking before exec. That plug-in has been removed from the version in svn, as many others, and I agree, it was useless. > > In the Init NG example for libchdir.so > http://www.initng.org/browser/initng-ifiles/trunk/initfiles/daemon/vdr.ii > it looks like you end up with quite a tricky script anyway. So it > doesn't look like there was a real gain. > > As for "libcpout.so initng's colorful output" and in light of our > convesation "libdbus_event.so" I think I stop digging now. libcpout is a on-screen logging plug-in, whats wrong with it? -- Ismael Luceno
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