On 29 October 2013 12:21, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > In other words, I don't think it would make any sense at all to > standardize on upstart or systemd and then ask people to continue to write > init scripts in the long run (transition issues aside). Getting rid of > init scripts is not the whole point, but it's a huge part of it.
My understanding is that init scripts will still be required for FreeBSD and The Hurd. Which is unfortunate. I often encounter init scripts that have race conditions or are otherwise broken. Restarting a simple daemon becomes a challenge to debug the supposedly good init script first. If the majority switched to systemd, then it would be up to the minority to maintain the initd scripts. I don't see this working very well. -- Brian May <br...@microcomaustralia.com.au>
