Am 08.09.2011 18:01, schrieb Tom Gundersen:
I think my preferred approach would be to provide some more helperfunctions in /etc/rc.d/functions which do the most common operations of the ones you outlined above. Just by glancing over your ssh-patch I got the impression that we would be better off supporting fewer options than start-stop-daemon does, to encourage unified/simple rc scripts. Take --start as an example, we should probably have a function that looks something like "start($pidfile,$executable,$args)"
Agreed.
. How we implement these functions would be an internal detail of initscripts (we could either include start-stop-daemon.c or we could implement them in bash if it is simple enough).
Clemens has a point here: Debian already sorted out all the kinks and quirks of this topic, and implemented the solution in start-stop-daemon.c. Instead of slowly converging towards their result (remaining buggy on the way), we would benefit from their work if our new helpers in rc.d/functions would simply call start-stop-daemon.