Init : someone could comment this ?
Enrico Scholz
enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Tue Jan 8 23:07:29 UTC 2008
Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin at ncsu.edu> writes:
>> no; as already written, modern initsystems use non-forking daemons
>> where such checks are not needed anymore.
>>
>>
>>
> It is up to the designer of the app whether it forks or not, and while
> there may be an argument that one way is better or worse, the init
> maintainers cannot guarantee the behavior of that which their system
> must start.
1. most (yes, I have numbers) daemons have some kind of --do-not-fork
switch
2. most (sorry, I do not have numbers there) daemons have some kind of
bugzilla where you can report patches and enhancements
Enrico
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