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Bug#733452: init system daemon readiness protocol



Tollef Fog Heen writes ("Bug#733452: init system daemon readiness protocol"):
> Ian Jackson:
> > I conclude therefore that we should design another simple protocol -
> > preferably, a variation on one of the existing ones - and have (at
> > least) both Debian's systemd and Debian's upstart implement it.
> 
> I think you're into ever-multiplying power socket standards territory
> here.  I am not going to carry patches in systemd in Debian for a
> Debian-only notification protocol because you don't want to use the
> upstream protocol.

I would like an easier protocol to be supported by upstream too.
Perhaps that wasn't clear from my message.  I would certainly prefer
to avoid some Debian-specific protocol.

Later:
> It seems Lennart read the proposal and responded in
> https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/posts/37AWJLE3XcJ

Nevertheless, even if SCM_CREDENTIALS is not required by systemd, my
proposed protocol is still simpler than the systemd one.

Lennart doesn't seem to have addressed this point.

Ian.


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