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  • From: Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: Seth Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>
  • Cc: Robert Helgesson <rycee AT home.se>, sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] init woes
  • Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:59:20 -0500

No, Python is soo amaturish. We should use Java and change the
simpleinit scripts to XML.
afrayednot's stuff requires a FS. I'm not sure if it actualy writes to
the file, but the file must exist.

Could we use the clock memory?


On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 16:20, Seth Woolley wrote:
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> I'd rather fork off a daemon and do ipc to it... maybe use afrayednot's
> ipc tools if not bash...
>
> or we could do it all in python ;)
>
> There's also nvram we could use :)
>
> Seth
>
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Paul Mahon wrote:
>
> > You're right, it's not required for anything. henh, you could mount the
> > swap partition as ext2 until there's a real FS... ;)
> >
> > On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 03:22, Robert Helgesson wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 02:23:34 -0500, Paul Mahon wrote:
> > > > I don't suppse it would be possible to mount a tmpfs system right at
> > > > the
> > > > start?
> > >
> > > Yes, that would probably work, but I'm not sure that it's safe to assume
> > > tmpfs being available on all smgl installations. Is tmpfs required by
> > > anything else?
> > >
> > > > On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 00:25, Robert Helgesson wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 23:41:53 -0500, Paul Mahon wrote:
> > > > > > I don't know how the init stuff actualy works, so the no FS
> > > > > > limitation
> > > > > > may not be as bad. Good ideas though.
> > > > >
> > > > > It is as bad as you can imagine and worse. Being limited to no
> > > > > read/write fs access and no /usr can be quite frustrating at times
> > > > > :)
> > --
> > De mortuis nihil nisi bonum.
> >
> > What is that funny looking stuff in the attachment?
> > http://www.technomom.com/cynthia/pgp/
> >
>
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