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Another daemon for managing control groups

Posted Dec 9, 2013 1:51 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Another daemon for managing control groups by pizza
Parent article: Another daemon for managing control groups

I guess a related question would be: why do AIX/Solaris/FreeBSD/OS X/etc. all use different systems other than SysV init (or if they do, why are none of them using the same configuration or even runlevel meanings)? What use cases were they looking for that SysV init couldn't satisfy?

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Another daemon for managing control groups

Posted Dec 10, 2013 17:06 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

FreeBSD's system is not wildly more capable than SysV. It just is different, mostly because of historical reasons. And there've been no compelling reasons to switch to SysV, so the split persists.

OS X initially used FreeBSD's init, but then developed launchd with additional functionality (like socket activation and declarative configuration).

Ditto for Solaris - it had a usual runlevel-based init that was replaced by SMF, which also replaced inittab and inetd.

Another daemon for managing control groups

Posted Dec 10, 2013 17:18 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I wasn't focusing on the capabilities of those systems, more on that SysV is not the end-all-be-all of init systems to begin with. Basically, if SysV is so good that even systemd and all it brings isn't enough to provide enough "compelling reasons to switch", what would? I was more aiming at answering the "modern SysV" feature set by suggesting to look around to see what else is offered by other (non-obsolete and in-use) systems for a guide.