OT: It's a bike shed

Posted Dec 1, 2014 23:51 UTC (Mon) by flussence (guest, #85566)
In reply to: OT: It's a bike shed by vonbrand
Parent article: The "Devuan" Debian fork

> Please get over it, init's job is not simple.

Init's job is to serve as an entry point to the OS's rc system, reap exited processes, and halt the system on command.

Once you learn to stop conflating init with the rc layer (which may be Upstart, OpenRC, runit, s6, many other things, or as you so eloquently put it the "cancer" of RHEL/Debian shell scripts), you'll agree how simple it is.

OT: It's a bike shed

Posted Dec 2, 2014 0:19 UTC (Tue) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] (1 responses)

Observation: by your definition, sysvinit overreaches.

OT: It's a bike shed

Posted Dec 2, 2014 15:54 UTC (Tue) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

It does! A lot of sysvinit doesn't need to be in PID 1 either.