Tom via Dng said on Tue, 14 May 2024 09:13:01 +1000

>> On 11 May 2024, at 10:46, Steve Litt <slitt@???>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Sysvinit's process controller is, IMHO, inferior to runit and s6
>> because it requires daemons to background themselves, and its init
>> scripts are huuuuuuuge. Systemd advocates would also include as a
>> disadvantage that sysvinit's process controller can't fork processes
>> in parallel. I don't think that's a significant disadvantage unless a
>> daemon is incredibly slow in starting, in which case, shame on the
>> daemon or shame on the admin (if he botched reverse DNS, for
>> instance).
>
>Isn’t this parallel startup handled by startpar for sysvinit?
>
>https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/startpar/startpar.1.en.html

I didn't know about startpar. Thanks for the info. If startpar existed
and worked in January 2014, it eliminated any excuse the "dd's" had for
switching to systemd.

SteveT

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