Bug#727708: loose ends for init system decision

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Josselin Mouette writes ("Bug#727708: loose ends for init system decision"):
> Le jeudi 02 janvier 2014 à 18:30 +0000, Ian Jackson a écrit : 
> > I would hope that we can standardise on a single API to the system's
> > single cgroup writer.
> 
> I have already explained why this is not going to happen. The cgroups
> API in systemd is already part of the core systemd interface and subject
> to the stability promise. The only other existing implementation
> (cgmanager) is merely wrapping in D-Bus the existing kernel API, which
> is going to die when a single writer becomes necessary.

Err, I'm not sure I see what is stopping the provision of the systemd
cgroup manager API by a program other than systemd.  But I haven't
looked at this in detail.

Ian.