On Sun, 26 May 2013 11:45:38 +0200 Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 May 2013 11:20:25 +0200 > Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > It is *easy*. > > > > ln -s /sbin/newinit /sbin/init.new > > mv /sbin/init.new /sbin/init > > > > Easy and atomic. The inconsistency potential is similar to one given > > by init upgrades. Yet we don't do anything magical to defer init > > upgrade until reboot, and that's why the upgrades go smoothly. > > Easy isn't always good. It's not atomic since you can't reboot and > because of that I wouldn't call it smooth either. Can't you? How come? > > > I think that safest way not using wrapper is to stop all services > > > and keep only mounted /, than change things (symlinks,configuration > > > update) and reboot. > > > > This can be done two ways. > > > > One is hacking into init (RC) reboot procedure. It's fragile, it needs > > to be fit into the right moment and I'm not sure if all inits will > > handle this without actually needing to patch the code. And in the > > end, the init gets replaced before init stops working anyway. > > You're making things way more complex than a wrapper would do. I'm not > a fan of using the words "hacking", "fragile" and "not sure" for > selling an approach; so, why were you suggesting the symlink approach? Don't mix the two mails. I am showing how fragile the solution suggested by Robert is. While you seem to be replying to every mail possible to repeatedly advocate your idea. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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