The road forward for systemd

well, while scott and i disagree in various points we actually agree on one thing: an init system doesnt need to be portable, and portability to other systems means severely limiting how you can make use of the available functionality of the os.

or to put it more drastically: i dont believe in portability, i will not let myself be limited by that and will not work on improving the portability of my projects. that said, for other, more high-level projects than systemd i maintain where portability might be interesting and easier to do, i wont make it it particularly hard for people who care about such things. i will merge their patches if they are clean, and i will opt for the portable iface if there is the alternative, but that's where it ends.

i believe the constant call for portability from some folks is just slowing us down, to little value. I for one am interested in making Linux better, not some non-existing abstract idea of an OS.

and to answer more to the point: among other apis upstart uses cn_proc, which is very linux specific.