On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:35:38PM +0100, Mika Fischer wrote:
> >In particular
> >http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.0.0/gLSB/initscrcomconv.html
> >addresses comment formatting stuff.
>
> Yeah, I agree that it'd be nice to be LSB-compliant.
Agreed. Although, I'm not sure I agree with the LSB Way(TM) in this
case. Richard Gooch has been working on a "need" and "provides" init
system that seems quite elegant. The "whitepaper" is found at the
following site:
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/boot-scripts/
He reports that the changes necessary for this init scheme were
incorporated into util-linux when it was at 2.10q. Kernel.org shows our
most current version is 2.11n. Yep, there they are:
../util-linux-2.11n/login-utils/initctl.8
../util-linux-2.11n/login-utils/initctl.c
../util-linux-2.11n/login-utils/simpleinit.8
../util-linux-2.11n/login-utils/simpleinit.c
../util-linux-2.11n/login-utils/simpleinit.h
You can look at his example init script from the webpage. It's actually
a very cool little system. I'll be trying it shortly.
Perhaps we should consider packaging it as "simpleinit".
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