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[Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>]

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Hello all,

We have a bit of an update as to the progress of our project to redo the init 
system:

http://rycee.cx/svn/smgl_init/smgl_init_proposal

As you might have followed on the lists, rycee has done allot of the initial 
work and we are almost there. His last comments (see below) have resulted in 
me posting this call for help. I just don't have the time to take a dive into 
this (and probably shouldn't as PL...). So instead of leaving it hanging I am 
again asking for help to coordinate with rycee and get this done.

Rycee has this all in a repository and online at:

http://rycee.cx/svn/smgl_init

Feel free to jump in, this is pretty important stuff and we would love to 
hear 
from you!


Rycee last statements:
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"...
1. Essential scripts aren't handled well. I think the problem I'm having
   pretty much stems from me not knowing enough about how to make
   interprocess communications in bash work.

2. Parallel execution of init-scripts works but makes the output a bit
   messy (it gets mixed up). This is what I've mainly been working on
   the last couple of days but I think I'm pretty stuck. Was working of
   something like a delayed cat.

3. I have a preliminary libinitd script for Sorcery to handle automatic
   script installation. The main thing missing from it is a way to
   merge updates to init-script config files into the installed config.
..."

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