Init Patch for review and evaluation

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sun Dec 23 00:39:42 UTC 2007


On Saturday 22 December 2007 22:42, Eugene Bordenkircher wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> The following patch to init fills a need that myself and several of my
> co-workers have.  The general idea is to have init kill those processes
> that have been removed from the inittab file after it has received a
> SIGHUP.  Currently, init will let them continue to run, but will not
> respawn them if they die.
>
> The changes were added as a selectable feature in the busybox config.
> Hopefully the patch will help others as well.
>
> Please respond with any comments/concerns/suggestions to help clarify or
> improve the implementation.

Sorry. I don't think that this is worth doing.

The patch itself is not bad, the idea of "fixing" init is.

I would like to ask you to read the following:

http://busybox.net/~vda/init_vs_runsv.html

If you think my arguments are flawed, feel free to let
me know your thoughts.
--
vda



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