Re: Making daemons compatible with systemd
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- Subject: Re: Making daemons compatible with systemd
- From: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
- Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:54:42 +0200
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]] Ian Jackson
| It is much better to modify the few upstream daemons which would need
| patching, than to add all of this extra machinery to support what
| seems to me to be a design whose entire purpose is to workaround a
| to-my-mind-broken interface paradigm (daemon(3)) invented decades ago.
I'm looking forward to your patches for the proprietary HP and Dell
daemons that are used for monitoring the health of various hardware
components.
(Sure, they might not be packaged for Debian, but adopting an init
system that doesn't deal with double-forking would be much, much worse
than adopting one which is Linux-specific for our Linux ports.)
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Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
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