Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) )

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew
 Jacob writes:
>> 
>
>> I would really like to see the devd functionality to live in init
>> and at the same time I wouldn't mind if init were taught to keep
>> important programs running, things like sshd, inetd, syslogd and
>> similar should be restarted if they die.
>> 
>> No, I don't want sysV runlevels or the weird shit AIX has.  I'm sure
>> a clean and sensible way can be found, if some mental energies are
>> poured into the problem.
>> 
>
>Isn't this throwing an awful lot onto init?

Not really...

The meta-daemon part is no different from keeping gettys in the air...

The devd thing consists of selecting on some magic fd and running a
program when something happens.  This could be done with a getty
like daemon too of course.


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