[systemd-devel] Archlinux patch for services and getty

[Tom Gundersen]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 16.06.10 14:19, Tom Gundersen (teg at jklm.no) wrote:
>> 1) parse the DAEMONS array from /etc/rc.conf
>> 2) each daemon should be made into a service and be scheduled "After"
>> the preceding daemon in the array.
>>
>> Two exceptions:
>> * if a daemon has an "!" in front of it, it should be ignored
>> * if a daemon has an "@" in front of it, no later daemon should have
>> an "After" dependency on it (the service is started in the background)
>>
>> Would a patch to do this be accepted? I might work on it in a few
>> weeks time if no one does it before me.
>
> Well, tbh this is not really sysv anymore but something completely
> different. I am a bit afraid of including changes like that. That said,
> a clean, small and self-contained patch can be a very convincing
> argument, and would probably make me forget my objections. ;-)

Yeah, I thought it was a bit dodgy. However, it should be very simple
and self-contained, so I'll give it a go when my schedule clears up a
bit and then you can decide once you see it.

-t