[gobolinux-devel] Daemons/Tasks on startup

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:35:08 +0200, Carlo Calica <carlo at calica.com> wrote:

> On 9/29/06, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:49:28 +0200, Carlo Calica <carlo at calica.com>  
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Big issue with bootstrap (of init process, not the kernel) is the
>> > entire base should use the new system.  This way all the events are
>> > properly triggered.  For instance, if the network is started with the
>> > old scripts upstart will never use the "network up" event trigger.
>> > Same with mounting partitions, starting syslog, etc.
>> >
>> I don't really follow you, but I'm guessing that you mean that if we  
>> stick
>> with our scripts the events wont be used/work. If we want to use upstart
>> I'm guessing we have to live with that during the transition.
>> If it gets as popular as Scott says it will be this is good news to me  
>> as
>> startup is one of the things that are most distro specific.
>>
>
> Don't feel bad, I explained it backwards.  The events need to be
> triggered from upstart tasks.  Standard init tasks can't trigger
> events.   For instance the "network up" event is triggered by the
> network task completeing.  If the network task is old style it can't
> trigger the event.  It wouldn't take much to decide on a few events
> and implement the tasks to complete them.   I'm still hoping the
> library of tasks will grow so we don't have to write them.  If we
> start too early our events might (will) differ.  Having someone
> coordinate with the ubuntu folks would be a good idea if we decide to
> use it.

Yes, it was something like that I thought that you meant. As upstart is  
included in the Edgy release of Ubuntu, they have to have tasks and  
services to be used with upstart already. I haven't looked at such tasks,  
but if I understood the description correctly, they wouldn't be that hard  
to write and my guess is that there isn't that many ways to write a task  
for, say, network.

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/Jonas

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