Re: /var/run/

> What's wrong with init? What doesn't it do well? Why do we need to
> build a new Leatherman when we already have a perfectly good knife,
> pliers, and screwdriver? Have you ever actually tried to use a
> Leatherman to do real work?

I don't know how well upstart will solve this, but programs shouldn't
be started serially. The fact that my system blocks on dhcp drives me
crazy.

As well if you want to write a gui to query an init system as to why
apache failed to start, you're pretty much screwed. You'd have to
write something different for each program, upstart seems to put a
layer of abstraction in there - a bunch of people could write
different guis for the upstart api, and start scripts only have to
worry about the upstart api too.

As for replacing cron and atd, etc, I'm not sure in the point of that.
Received on Fri Jan 5 11:38:08 2007