[clue-tech] upstart

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at comcast.net>
> 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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No, I think they started around 1999, and finished a few years ago.  I don't know if they did it all at once, or if they implemented it gradually.  I might still have the document around somewhere.