launchd for Linux

[Ruben Vermeersch]

On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 18:46 -0400, Jay Camp wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 23:30 +0200, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:
> >  http://jw.dyndns.org/initng/ -- this pice of software looks very nice. 
> > Maybe it could be an Breezy+1 goal? :-) After all we target faster 
> > startup times.
> 
> I haven't personally used initng, but looking at it it seems to keep the
> standard init model while just fixing some of its biggest flaws.
> 
> Here is a short slide presentation[1] from RedHat I saw online several
> months ago.  It seems to take a step back and rethink the whole
> architecture itself to make it more robust for desktop use, instead of
> just focusing on parallelizing init.
> 
> Of course, score++ for initng since code for it exists, while AFAIK,
> none does for this.
> 
> [1] http://people.redhat.com/johnp/dynamic-linux-slides/img0.html

Indeed, perhaps we should reconsider the model as a whole, having 20
separate bash processes can't hardly be called efficient. J5's idea
about dynamic Linux sure has some nice ideas on that.


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Ruben Vermeersch
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