Re: runsystem
Hi,
I do not remember which developer this was, however, some big Linux
developer (from Australia I seem to remember) created some exactly
like taht.
-Neal
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 10:39:30PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:24:09PM -0700, Kevin Musick wrote:
> > Thanks for the clarification. Should I read into this that the Hurd
> > designers envision an alternative startup sequence, departing from the rc#.d
> > scripts and all of the symbolic links and creative filenaming to something a
> > little more twentieth-century? Or, is /libexec/rc just a sample startup
> > script to get someone running who doesn't have a complete distribution
> > available?
>
> Last thing I heard is that Thomas is envisioning some Makefile-ish start up
> system. The initial question being: Why should there be any fixed number of
> runlevels? The Hurd tries to break with as much arbitrary limitations as
> possible.
>
> Designing and coding this is certainly one of the bigger tasks, and of lower
> priority. Interested people should probably talk to Thomas and Roland
> about specifics.
>
> Thanks,
> Marcus
>
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