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Poettering: Rethinking PID 1

Poettering: Rethinking PID 1

Posted May 4, 2010 8:22 UTC (Tue) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)
In reply to: Poettering: Rethinking PID 1 by pranith
Parent article: Poettering: Rethinking PID 1

Yeah launchd is pretty cool. init, inetd, crond, and more all wrapped in an extremely underdocumented mess that is configured in horridly mis-designed xml, and sometimes crashes.

There's some good ideas in there, but the implementation leaves something to be desired.


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