On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:57:23AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >You also wrote more or less that systemd is the only way to support > >cgroups, while this is untrue. OpenRC at least has support for it (and > >probably upstart too? I'm not sure...), and it also builds on FreeBSD > >(not yet Debian kFreeBSD, but that also should be easy to fix). The > >argument that to support modern things like cgroups, an init system has > >to be incompatible with anything else than Linux is just simply false. > upstart is (or is going to use) the prctl Linux system call and > therefore no longer compatible with non-Linux kernels. Not sure where this idea comes from. upstart has never supported non-Linux kernels; we're open to it being ported to other kernels, but prctl is a minor detail for kernel compatibility compared with other, more significant features that upstart relies on. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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