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Suggestions for Init System Features?

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday November 23 2014, @01:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the first-do-no-harm dept.

Subsentient writes:

I am the maintainer of the Epoch Init System, a single threaded Linux init system with non-intrusiveness in mind, and I'm preparing to release 2.0. It's mostly a code cleanup release, but while I'm at it, I thought I'd ask the Soylent community what features they'd like to see. I'm open to all good ideas, but I'm wary of feature creep, so as a result, I won't consider the following:

* multithreaded/parallel services, because that goes against design goals of simplicity and harms customizability
* mounting support or networking support; it's an init system, use busybox if you need a mount command.

So what do soylentils want to see in the next release of the Epoch Init System?

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by cafebabe on Sunday November 23 2014, @01:58AM

    by cafebabe (894) on Sunday November 23 2014, @01:58AM (#118997) Journal

    The feature I'd like in an init system is that it should boot a system in a deterministic manner and do very little else. If it could run daemon-tools somewhere along the boot process, that would be very much appreciated.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by davester666 on Sunday November 23 2014, @07:25AM

    by davester666 (155) on Sunday November 23 2014, @07:25AM (#119050)

    Totally. And would you mind adding the API for systemd to it, just for compatibility with other systems.

    • (Score: 1) by dlb on Sunday November 23 2014, @03:03PM

      by dlb (4790) on Sunday November 23 2014, @03:03PM (#119118)

      would you mind adding the API for systemd

      The systemd mass temper tantrum has generated so many snarky posts that on first read I couldn't tell if you were trolling or not. (In fact, I'm still not 100% certain. But that's probably due to my lack of understanding of init systems.)

      • (Score: 2) by davester666 on Tuesday November 25 2014, @09:12AM

        by davester666 (155) on Tuesday November 25 2014, @09:12AM (#119730)

        trolling/whooshing....adding the systemd interface would go 100% against the whole k.i.s.s. thing...