From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1079 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Isaac Dunham Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Re: Vision for new platform Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:59:22 -0700 Message-ID: <20120611175922.34fea59b@newbook> References: <20120610132246.GF163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20120610225226.137363d0@sibserver.ru> <20120610151311.GH163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20120610235125.31f38cd7@sibserver.ru> <20120610163359.GJ163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20120611015349.701fa061@sibserver.ru> <20120611022606.303f6d07@sibserver.ru> <20120610193348.GK163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1339462785 31621 80.91.229.3 (12 Jun 2012 00:59:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:59:45 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1080-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue Jun 12 02:59:44 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SeFSL-0005mO-O7 for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 02:59:37 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 17445 invoked by uid 550); 12 Jun 2012 00:59:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 17437 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2012 00:59:37 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=lavabit; d=lavabit.com; b=K/eWOy6gU2qyf00jG+XrjRp1LYIF8F7S8N7NkLRJhEpnIN9taFIz7al8TXl5A1WlN8gXY3opM4Jj8/6uED4o4SDGifu6ERM9grVQu2wf/7D4B7qdOai6O6lXFkQqfOBHcdKGfuCKUJiZxDpfWnwMAHBviuPC0rqySA+a0phwhj4=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; In-Reply-To: <20120610193348.GK163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1079 Archived-At: On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:33:48 -0400 Rich Felker wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 08:38:57PM +0200, Daniel Cegie=C5=82ka wrote: > > I understand that and instead systemd I prefer to stay with > > sysvinit+openrc... >=20 > sysvinit is really not a rational design. It does a lot of the same > stupid stuff as systemd (controlling process lifetime from pid 1, but > in this case it's only used for legacy console gettys, not for > daemons). And runlevels never really made any sense to me; they just > made init scripts a lot more complex and difficult to maintain by > having to handle the additional case of switching between runlevels > with different things in them and getting the order of stop/start > right.. runlevels come in handy, if you know how to use them. Debian mutilates them, though, so they seem less handy on Debian/Ubuntu systems. Here's what I'd do: 1. I just want to get into recovery (single-user) mode in a hurry; the system is hosed as it stands. 2. I want a shell, quick (maybe because there's one file I need to copy over to a flash drive) 3. Networking would be nice, but I don't want X just yet. 4. X is handy, but maybe not networking or printing... 5. Start the whole enchilada. And yes, I do see a need for all 5 of those, including a way to start the system in any of them (which runlevels allow, via kernel parameters). Sometimes, starting networking or not makes a minute or more of difference (yes, I've timed it: 34 seconds vs 100+). On one of my computers, if I let the networking daemon run in the wrong area, it reliably panics the kernel (madwifi 0.10.5.6 is the most functional driver, except it panics if dhclient gets run too soon). So "turn off networking via boot parameter" is mandatory for me. In summary, if you remove runlevels, you'd have to do the same thing another way to meet my needs. Isaac Dunham