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A comment on Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do the sane thing”. Parent comment

Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by coldtea on Monday July 10, 2017 @02:49AM (#14733877)
Because the latter community enjoys a hodgepodge of scripts doing arbitrary things instead of a standardized well organized mechanism?
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Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by gaius on Monday July 10, 2017 @06:48AM (#14734792)
How much time do you think a member of the latter group spend on init scripts?

When I did that job, I would estimate maybe one day a year at most. But core functions just stopping working and no one knows why would have been a very big deal

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