From: Kevin Chadwick <kc-usenet@chadwicks.me.uk>
Subject: Re: systemd controversy
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:58:30 -0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <utdcbm$14f4r$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <utd3ku$12lm6$4@dont-email.me>
\r>Scripts need an interpreter. Being Turing-complete, in general information
>cannot be extracted from them except by running them. Unit files have a
>fixed vocabulary of keyword entries, which can be easily enumerated,
>looked up, whatever. That’s what’s meant by “declarative”.
Sorry but that is nonsense. The code behind those unit files is a lot of
disparate C.
In my experience init scripts are made entirely of simple commands that are
documented and editable, piece by piece.
https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/etc/rc?rev=1.572&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
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Regards, Kc
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2024-03-13 14:07 SystemD controversy Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester
2024-03-13 14:34 ` magardner2010
2024-03-13 16:41 ` Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester
2024-03-13 19:01 ` Keith Thompson
2024-03-13 21:55 ` systemd controversy Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-03-18 17:05 ` streaksu
2024-03-18 19:56 ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-03-19 0:36 ` streaksu
2024-03-19 2:36 ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-03-19 3:01 ` streaksu
2024-03-19 10:16 ` Kevin Chadwick
2024-03-19 22:29 ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-03-20 0:58 ` Kevin Chadwick [this message]
2024-03-20 3:17 ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-03-20 9:56 ` Kevin Chadwick
2024-03-20 23:01 ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-03-21 0:06 ` Alexis
2024-03-21 1:50 ` Kevin Chadwick
2024-03-21 2:41 ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-03-21 0:10 ` Alexis
2024-03-13 20:32 ` SystemD controversy Pascal Obry
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