On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 14:11:17 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > A possible way to implement this state-based policy without relying on the > underlying boot system would be to require packages and users to never call > init script directly and to make service(8) the interface to init scripts for > the user. service(8) and invoke-rc.d(8) would then work together to keep a > state cache, which would be used by invoke-rc.d. > > What do the others think? > I think such state should be kept by init (which knows, or should know, which services/processes are running), not by invoke-rc.d(8) and service(8). And I think we should ditch sysvinit. So I think making these scripts even more complex is unnecessary in the long run. Cheers, Julien
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