al3xu5 via Dng said on Wed, 15 May 2024 08:59:49 +0200

>Wed, 15 May 2024 02:10:14 -0400 - Steve Litt
><slitt@???>:

>> 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.
>
>It has been separated from sysvinit-tools at Wed, 19 Feb 2014 22:15:02
>+0100, which means it already existed before...
>https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/s/startpar/startpar_0.65-1_changelog

In other words, poettering and the dds KNEW you could do (feature name
parallel-instantiation) with sysvinit, but withheld this info from the
general public and in fact lied ("you need systemd to do
parallel-instantiation"). When Don Armstrong cast his bragged about
tie-breaking vote for systemd, and before he removed posting rights
from me and many others, he knew this was a lie. Now I'm really pissed.

This puts sysvinit in a better light. Combine this with the short init
script Martin showed us, and my only remaining objection to sysvinit is
that the daemons need to background themselves.

SteveT

Steve Litt

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