Laurent Bercot <ska-de...@skarnet.org> writes: > On 06/08/2015 20:18, Rainer Weikusat wrote: >> UNIX(*) and therefore, Linux, provides two system calls named fork and >> exec which can be used to create a new process while inheriting certain >> parts of the existing environment and to execute a new program in an >> existing process, keeping most of the environment. This implies that it >> is possible to write a program which performs a particular 'environment >> setup task' and then executes another program in the change >> environment.
[...] >> And that's finally the jboss start script. I have some more tools of >> this kind because whenever I need a new, generic process management task >> to be performed, I write a new program doing that which can be used in >> concert with the existing ones. > > What you are saying is that your approach is exactly the same as the > one found here: > http://skarnet.org/software/execline/ No, it's not. This is an interpreter for another programming language sharing some concepts with the Thompson-shell. What I was describing were additions to an existing scripting environment in order to help with 'process/ services management'. I'm going to ignore the remainder of this because - while system startup is a topic of some interest to me - people warring over the right way to replace UNIX(*) because it's broken isn't. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
