Re: systemd controversy

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 09:56:18 -0000 (UTC), Kevin Chadwick wrote:

> I'm skeptical of the flexibility being lost.

systemd service definitions let you state dependencies between services. 
Furthermore, it separates them into ordering dependencies versus 
requirement dependencies.

E.g. an application that uses a MariaDB database requires MariaDB to be 
running before it can be started (ordering + requirement dependency).

An application that can (but doesn’t have to) make use of network services 
should be started after the network stack is up (ordering dependency).

I’m not aware of any other service-management system that provides this 
level of control.

> SysV init scripts are quite horrid but OpenBSDs rc system is far more
>  transparent, flexible and nicer to work with than systemd.

Does it have the equivalent of cgroups? These are a Linux feature (also 
used by OpenRC) to ensure that, no matter how service processes may fork/
exec/terminate, the service manager can always track them down.