upstart 0.5, user-land tools and roadmap

[Garrett Cooper]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:45 PM, shirish <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just to add so I don't confuse anybody.
>
> From what I understand. the goal of upstart has nothing to do with
> boot time improvements, its a side-benefit one gets if services are
> automated to start or stop while booting up
> --
>          Regards,
>          Shirish Agarwal
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SysV init has been doing this type of thing for ages -- just in a more
dumbed down form with runlevels.

Upstart brings a number of improvements to the table, but AFAIK there
hasn't been a push (nor should there be IMO) for upstart to do more
than handle initial process(es) and job(s). I really don't see the
added benefit in making Upstart into a system swiss army knife of
sorts, because that just makes Upstart into a userlevel mini-kernel
;).

-Garrett