[systemd-devel] RFC: removing initctl support

[Michael Biebl]

2015-09-23 0:45 GMT+02:00 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:
> On Wed, 23.09.15 00:38, Michael Biebl (mbiebl at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> yes, in Debian we'll need /dev/initctl support for at least another
>> release cycle so users can switch between the init system and safely
>> reboot (in both directions).
>
> How does Debian switch between the init systems? Couldn't you just use
> the right client for the right init system?

Well, you can't replace the running sysvinit instance with systemd
(and vice versa).
That's why we need the sysvinit tools to talk to systemd via
/dev/initctl and the systemd tools to talk to sysvinit.