Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian
Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> writes:
> Just for fun, here's all the logic we need to get rsyncd started, *and*
> it only starts once network is properly up (where the definition of "up"
> is user-configurable as we often disagree on it):
> #!/sbin/runscript
> # Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation
> # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
> # $Header:
> /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-misc/rsync/files/rsyncd.init.d-r1,v 1.1
> 2012/03/22 22:01:21 idl0r Exp $
> command="/usr/bin/rsync"
> command_args="--daemon ${RSYNC_OPTS}"
> pidfile="/var/run/${SVCNAME}.pid"
> depend() {
> use net
> }
That's all nice and good from a syntax perspective, but we already have
the virtual facility $network in our current system. The question is:
what does "use net" *do*?
If it doesn't wait until the interface is fully configured via DHCP, it's
useless for solving the problem that I'm talking about, and that's much
more complicated than just doing init script ordering since it involves
more than just waiting for daemons to start.
As mentioned before, I really don't care what init system we use and I'm
happy to adjust my packages to use whatever. I just want to make sure
that it will *actually solve the problems*, not just add another level of
hand-waving. The problems that I'm particularly concerned about are:
* Tracking the processes started by an init script so that they can be
killed properly without doing bogus matching on process names, using
/proc information to see if they're a particular executable (which is
fragile when what you're doing is upgrading that executable and you may
not want to stop it first), or particularly PID files.
* Automatically restarting services that crash, similar to what
daemontools or runit can do.
* Real event awareness at the kernel level so that it knows when parts of
the system are *actually* available without guessing, using random
delays, or making assumptions about the implications of other daemons
having been started.
* Getting rid of all the boilerplate in init scripts and reducing them to
only the information that's actually interesting and might change.
I know upstart and systemd do all of those things for the platforms for
which they're available. I know that the current init system does none of
those things. According to this thread, I know OpenRC does do several of
those things. If it also does all of those things, great! That makes it
a very interesting contender. If it doesn't do all of those things and
can't be made to do all those things with roughly the same amount of
effort it would take to port upstart or systemd to kFreeBSD, it ceases to
be an interesting contender for me personally.
The conversation has gotten a bit frustrating, so I feel compelled to say
explicitly (not aimed at you, Patrick) that I'm completely uninterested
personally in arguments that I shouldn't care about those features. I do,
and I'm extremely unlikely to change my mind.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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