Seth Vidal wrote: > +20 million. > > I couldn't agree more. They need to be scripts, considering how seldom > they actually run it makes even less sense to chase down optimization in > them by making them compiled.
Absolutely. I have no idea why you shouldn't use a small and light interpreted language rather than C. You would have a standard library of useful init related functions, so you wouldn't have to fork awk, etc. The actual init scripts would be very small then. C is also missing useful datatypes such as maps, which would require libraries to load. Something like Lua would be very good. The overheads over C would be minimal, and it would have the advantage of being editable. I've had to edit an init script to get something working properly many times. Jeremy -- http://jeremysanders.net/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
