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Udev and systemd to merge

Udev and systemd to merge

Posted Apr 3, 2012 21:05 UTC (Tue) by karim (subscriber, #114)
Parent article: Udev and systemd to merge

So now, this is very much Android's way of doing things. They have a mereged init and udev. Interesting.


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Udev and systemd to merge

Posted Apr 3, 2012 21:29 UTC (Tue) by vrfy (subscriber, #13362) [Link]

They have lot of other things right too. Some parts are really ugly in the details, but the overall thing is very smart, and totally worth to learn from.

Udev and systemd to merge

Posted Apr 4, 2012 0:25 UTC (Wed) by samroberts (subscriber, #46749) [Link]

But they merged the functionality of udev into the init *process*, right? This just merges the source trees.

Udev and systemd to merge

Posted Apr 4, 2012 21:00 UTC (Wed) by karim (subscriber, #114) [Link]

No, Android merges the code-base, not the processes. They run as separate processes in Android.

Udev and systemd to merge

Posted Apr 5, 2012 16:43 UTC (Thu) by scientes (guest, #83068) [Link]

their linker also has an arbitrary (and low) limit of 96 shared libraries linked to a process.

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