15 Aug
2012
15 Aug
'12
10:27 a.m.
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
I'd love to see the overall advantages and disadvantages of each of those fleshed out on a page where I can read them
Here's one part
A good design would make the init process which is always running and everyone must run.
1./ Be a small simple binary
2./ Have no dependencies
3./ Be easy to follow, fix and lockdown, best fit being interpreted languages.
4./ be as fast as possible
systemd meets 4. Sysvinit meets 1-3 well but OpenBSDs init meets 1-3 better
I agree in general, but systemd doesn't meet #4; we are supposed to believe that's the case, but does it really? -- Felipe Contreras