upstart as cron replacement [LWN.net]

upstart as cron replacement

Posted Aug 31, 2006 23:13 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: upstart as cron replacement by vmole
Parent article: What's happening at Ubuntu: from X.org updates to upstart

I'm just not convinced that combining init, cron/at/etc., and inetd is the correct choice, despite (IMO) superficial simularities. In particular, I think maintaining appropriate security domains may be more complicated than one would like.

I'm not entirely sure about that myself; certainly the requirements for a safe /sbin/init replacement are a lot higher than those for anything else in the system, and there's something to be said for keeping the thing as simple as possible.

Personally, I wouldn't be entirely happy writing something that complex, but that's simply because I do like to run my code under strace or gdb in order to figure out why it misbehaves, and I'd have to adopt a couple of different debugging techniques. ;-)
You can't trace the process with PID one (for good reasons, too).

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