Re: [announce] skarnet.org Winter 2021-2022 release

["Casper Ti. Vector" <caspervector@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 08:48:26AM +0000, Laurent Bercot wrote:
>  I want to keep the "stages" framing for s6-linux-init, because I think
> it is useful: these are qualitatively different parts of the init
> process. (There's a "stage 3" and a "stage 4" as well, at shutdown
> time: they're handled by the s6-linux-init-shutdownd daemon.) The
> framing is actually *more* useful here than in runit, where "stages"
> are only sequence points and the only real hardcoded meaning is that
> the system shuts down when /etc/runit/3 exits.
 
I would like to note that the old-fashioned way to shut down -- letting
`s6-svscan' exec() into a "stage-3" script, which performs the halting
procedure -- is still available from slew and legacy s6-linux-init.
I personally find it simpler to understand, in the cost of a lack of
full compatibility with `shutdown' without relying on some `atd':
<https://skarnet.org/lists/supervision/2779.html>.

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