Re:Rethinking PID 1
by bediger on Saturday May 01, 2010 @12:42PM
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I have to say I feel skeptical about this.
In some situations (servers) we just don't care about how long it takes to do this part of the boot: my SMTP/HTTP/SSH server in the basement has been up 155 days. I think it only goes down when I loose (residential) power.
I'd rather have a correct startup than a fast, subtly incorrect startup. I expect that this would introduce a lot of concurrency-related bugs, and make dinking with startup scripts into something of a Black Art.
In some situations (servers) we just don't care about how long it takes to do this part of the boot: my SMTP/HTTP/SSH server in the basement has been up 155 days. I think it only goes down when I loose (residential) power.
I'd rather have a correct startup than a fast, subtly incorrect startup. I expect that this would introduce a lot of concurrency-related bugs, and make dinking with startup scripts into something of a Black Art.