On 26/04/2012 03:05, Svante Signell wrote: > On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 19:49 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> On Apr 25, Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > ... >>> I'd like to ask you to evaluate OpenRC as candidate to replace the "old" >>> have-always-been-there sysvinit/insserv init scripts in Debian. >> What we need is an event-driven init system, anything else will just >> make us waste more time. > > And the _technical_ motivation for that is?? Please give a link or explain! > >>> What we offer you is a modern, slim, userfriendly init system with >> Sorry, no. upstart, systemd or the Apple thing are modern init systems, >> this one is not > >> But I agree that it would have been nice 5 years ago. > > See above! I think Arto Jantunen explained it pretty well earlier in this thread: > Reliability in the case of modern kernels and modern hardware means > event based, not static. The hardware in a modern computer comes and > goes as it pleases (usb devices being the worst example, but scanning > for pci or sata busses and loading drivers isn't exactly instant in all > cases either), and the kernel has little choice in the matter. It can > either sleep until "everything is surely detected by now" before passing > control to userspace, or pass control and the problem along (by > providing event notification when the device set changes). The kernel > made its choice about this years ago, and we have been living on > borrowed time and kludges since then. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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