Justus Winter, le Tue 25 Jun 2013 17:47:49 +0200, a écrit : > This special interface they both use and the fact that init does lot's > of process related things might be an indication that the seperation > does more harm than good. It seems to make the code more complex, and > fixing the issue of killing essential processes will probably involve > adding more specialized messages that are only used by those two > processes. Is there a benefit of having them separated?
I don't see a benefit either, particularly given when we would use sysvinit's init for unix init tasks. Anybody? > About the pid 1 issue, I thought about patching the proc server to > reserve pid 1 for sysvinit and just make our init pid 4 or > something. Pino mentioned something about hardcoded assumptions of > which hurd server has which pid. Where would I find such assumptions > documented? Or could you provide anything from the top of your head? I don't think it's written anywhere except in people's debug.txt file, so changing it wouldn't harm. Samuel
