On 02/20/2014 09:02 PM, Tom H wrote: > What features does sysvinit+openrc have that sysvinit+sysv-rc+insserv > doesn't have?
Just to name a few: - getting rid of the ugly LSB headers - cgroup supports to kill processes - rc_hotplug (a hotplugged service is one started by a dynamic dev manager when a matching hardware device is found). - Checks if a daemon is really started by start-stop-daemon - Dependency loop breaking system - Named runlevels (I already talked about that) - Stateful system (see rc-status) - Dependency caching system (so you wont have to wait for its calculation at next boot) - ... (that's from top of my head, I may have forget some...) And of course: - minimalistic declarative "runscripts", instead of huge init.d scripts. A quick example that I wrote myself is available here: http://thomas.goirand.fr/blog/?p=147 You may find more examples inside the source code of openrc (in the Debian source package for example), under init.d.misc. Interestingly, in it you may see that simple things are very simple, but it's also possible to make complex runscripts when needed (yes, the hard reality, sometimes means that complex things are needed at boot time). What's coming: - monit integration in runscripts (so you can have monit to restart crashed services, and send emails when they do). We already have patches available for it, so it's taking a good shape. - s6 (or equivalent) process monitoring. This is still under discussion upstream. There's some goodies which are more Gentoo oriented, like their network integration, but I don't think it's worth mentioning as I don't think these features would be useful for Debian, unless someone works on adapting them (for example, to read /etc/network/interfaces instead of whatever Gentoo uses). Also, we have an ALIVE UPSTREAM TEAM, and an evolving project, which is IMO important (is there anyone still working on sysv-rc apart from a few Debian maintainers? my understanding is: we're alone now...). Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/53061128.1080...@debian.org
