init: API

Dimi Paun dimi at lattica.com
Wed Nov 16 18:53:54 UTC 2005


From: "David Malcolm" <dmalcolm at redhat.com>
> >   * a way for services to interact with the administrators
> >     (for example to ask for passphrases, etc.)
> 
> Youch!  :-)  Writing it that way makes me think of some nightmare world
> where the httpd service is restarting _me_

I know, we should avoid as much as possible any such interaction.
But in certain cases it is inevitable, and since we're talking 
about API, I think we should consider it. From an API perspective
it doesn't really matter that it is a rare use case.

-- 
Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com>
Lattica, Inc.





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