Re: [DNG] Runlevels (Was: Lead BusyBox developer on sysvinit)

2016-02-22 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 15:45 +, Simon Hobson wrote: > Rainer Weikusat wrote: > > > The abstract definition of 'runlevel' is (as far as I'm aware of it): > > "Set of processes supposed to be running". > > That's what I understand it to be. FYI: You might be interested in the problem of defini

Re: [DNG] Runlevels (Was: Lead BusyBox developer on sysvinit)

2016-02-22 Thread Simon Hobson
Matthew Melton wrote: > What you are describing is a state machine? > Each run level is a stable state representing what is running (or supposed to > be). Something needs to trigger (change of input or "change of runlevel") > Each stable state has an "init" transition state (starting the servi

Re: [DNG] Runlevels (Was: Lead BusyBox developer on sysvinit)

2016-02-22 Thread Matthew Melton
> -Original Message- > From: Dng [mailto:dng-boun...@lists.dyne.org] On Behalf Of Simon Hobson > Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 3:45 PM > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > Subject: Re: [DNG] Runlevels (Was: Lead BusyBox developer on sysvinit) > > Rainer Weikusat wrote

Re: [DNG] Runlevels (Was: Lead BusyBox developer on sysvinit)

2016-02-19 Thread Simon Hobson
Rainer Weikusat wrote: > The abstract definition of 'runlevel' is (as far as I'm aware of it): > "Set of processes supposed to be running". That's what I understand it to be. > Considering this, one can > safely conclude that whatever 'Dennys' did, he certainly didn't to > that. A somewhat educ