On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:30:02 +0200
Luca Barbato <lu_z...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 08/09/2012 09:43 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:42:15 +0200
> > Luca Barbato <lu_z...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> Repeat after me: having your first process require anything more
> >> than libc is stupid and dangerous.
> > 
> > But you are aware that glibc is probably much, much worse than most
> > of those 'stupid and dangerous' libraries, right?
> 
> Then we have a bigger problem, since everything in our system is based
> on that.

Yes, we do, sir.

> >> Once that concept gets accepted then we could discuss about why
> >> reinventing shellscript may not be that sound and other less
> >> glaring, horrid and appalling design choices.
> > 
> > Yes, exactly. So why does openrc reinvent that horrible shellscript?
> 
> It is not re-invented, in fact we can use any compatible shell.

Or anything else what can be spawned for shell. And a lot more what you
won't expect. And guess what, people are actually doing crazy things
with it because someone forgot to tell them how a init.d script should
work.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: PGP signature

Reply via email to