dash ( and the new world order )

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Fri Sep 15 19:09:23 BST 2006


On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 03:28:51AM -0500, Brandon Holtsclaw wrote:
> Ante Karamatic wrote:
> > But upstart executes same scripts which init executes also. Bringing
> > back bash instead od dash would result in slower boot with both init and
> > upstart. Upstart doesn't speed up booting (it can/could be side effect,
> > but not main goal). Booting is faster due dash.
> 
> Right I understand that, it uses upstart-sysv-compat right now, but I'm
> thinking more longer term when they are converted into upstart jobs (
> thus the reference to when Scott said no new packages will be accepted
> in edgy+2 without upstart jobs )

The boot process is still likely to run a lot of shell scripts.

-- 
 - mdz



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