Parellel boot and audit

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Tue Apr 1 19:36:49 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>  Work with the Linux Foundation on a new/revised sane LSB spec?

There are two separate things here:

1) Use LSB for OS-provided init scripts
2) Support third-party LSB init scripts

Now 2) makes sense, but I don't see a lot of value generally in 1) -
particularly since most of these init scripts are just a big
copy&paste mess of shell script that can be effectively replaced by a
single Upstart line like:

exec /usr/libexec/mydaemon

To take a concrete example from
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=246884
This would be the startup script:

pre-start script
  if ! /sbin/lsmod | grep -q cachefiles; then modprobe cachefiles; fi
end script
exec /sbin/cachefilesd

85 lines of shell goo down to 4.  And it'd just be 1 if the logic for
the kernel module was in the daemon itself (as I would argue it should
be).




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