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["Robert Helgesson" <rycee AT home.se>]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 16:13:51 +0200, Eric Schabell wrote:
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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.

This is fixed as a result of the resolution of point 2.

> 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.

Parallell execution of scripts have been dropped.

> 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.
> ..."

This is pretty much what is missing now.

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