Which init system for Debian?
Which init system for Debian?
Posted Nov 16, 2013 19:45 UTC (Sat) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)In reply to: Which init system for Debian? by paulj
Parent article: Which init system for Debian?
>> You're describing the race intrinsic to the shell SysV rc/init scripts
Where did I say that?
The race condition doesn't go away just by rewriting the code in C or whatever.
>> a super-daemon knows the services it manages, knows the processes
>> it has launched and knows their PIDs.
It does not know what else these processes forked off, and thus it cannot clean up after them. Don't ask me how often I had to do that manually, for some Apache-FCGI subprocess that got stuck in la-la-land.