On 11/7/09, Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi! > > On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 14:00:23 +0000, Alan Jenkins wrote: >> On 9/5/09, Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> wrote: >> > change the init.d script >> > handling to treat upstart jobs as init.d scripts, to provide an >> > alternative for architectures lacking upstart support > >> I read this as a euphemism for non-linux architectures such as >> kFreeBSD. But I don't understand how this would be done. > >> An alternative would be to make upstart more portable. At the moment >> the only obvious technical problem is the use of ptrace(), but I don't >> see this as insurmountable. I think the biggest problem would be to >> persuade upstream. > > There's several others (taken from this thread [0]): > > * SIGPWR > * inotify > * waitid() > * epoll, eventfd, signalfd, timerfd > * ptrace > * netlink proc connector > * netlink udev interface > > Check Scott's [1] and Petr's [2] mails on that thread for more details. > > [0] <http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2009/07/msg00117.html> > [1] <http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2009/07/msg00122.html> > [2] <http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2009/07/msg00120.html> > >> I'm prepared to work on the code... if it's really feasible, it >> shouldn't take too long. What I can't do is make a solid case to >> upstream by myself. It would really need agreement from the debian >> upstart maintainers that this is their preferred way forward, along >> with a commitment that Debian will help resolve any portability issues >> which arise in future versions of upstart. > > The biggest issue I see is that someone will have to step up and > become “upstream” for the non-Linux ports, given Scott's position. > I'm not sure how he'd expect those to get released, if as outright > forks or something else, that'd need to be discussed with him. It will > also need copyright assignments [3] for the code that might need to be > merged back. > > [3] <http://upstart.ubuntu.com/wiki/CopyrightAssignment> > >> Does this make any sense? Is anyone already working on running >> upstart scripts on non-linux architectures? > > It was brought up in the debian-bsd list, but I don't know of any one > working on it. > > regards, > guillem
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