[clue-tech] upstart

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 09-08 23:01, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 21:59 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> > Interestingly enough,  Gentoo solved the problem of dependency
> > scheduling of init scripts a very long time ago, so now upstart, et
> > al, would appear to be reinventing the wheel.
> > 
> 
> They also use a structure different from sysvinit's.  I think it's
> something like /etc/single and /etc/multiuser, but I would need to look
> it up to get it right.
> 
> I'm curious how they solved it.  I know at least one of the BSD's
> redesigned their init program to handle dependencies.  They discussed it
> for a long time.  I'm not sure if there was any true concensus, but they
> then went ahead and implemented it.  Their solution might be standard in
> all BSD's by now.

I wonder if that was one of the newer ones like TrustedBSD or DragonflyBSD.

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