Re: Paper on init scripts and Debian (debconf2)
In article <20020630171457.F23292@khazad-dum>,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
>I have uploaded to http://people.debian.org/~hmh/ a paper about init scripts
>and Debian. People attending my talk about init scripts at debconf2 should
>try to read that paper before the conference.
I can't attend the conference, but a few small remarks:
- in fact, sysvinits /sbin/init isn't that big, it appears big
because glibc is a monster.
$ size /sbin/init
text data bss dec hex filename
24650 1224 468 26342 66e6 /sbin/init
- 5.1: "init q" means "re-read inittab", and "init u" means "re-exec"
(the `u' stands for "upgrade")
- 5.4.2: This paragraph shows a slight misunderstanding of how
sysvinit works. /etc/rcX.d/Kxx scripts are not executed
when a runlevel is left, they are executed when a
runlevel is entered! This is also how it is specified
to update-rc.d
- After woody, I intend to break up sysvinit into probably three
packages. One containing just the binaries (init, shutdown, etc),
probably called 'sysvinit-bin', one containing the basic initscripts
(/etc/init.d/checkroot.sh etc), probably called 'initscripts-base',
and one containing the startup-policy (/etc/init.d/rc etc) for which
I don't have a proper name (sysvinit-boot ?). That last one could
be replaced with file-rc, or any other scheme.
Mike.
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