RE: [Lsb-wg] LSB System Initialization chapter

Tobias, thanks for the feedback.  Interestingly, nearly
all of the comments are on the one section where I didn't
make any changes from what's out as 3.0pre, perhaps
I should have :-)

But I do understand the intent much better there now!

>Hello,
>
>Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
>>I've been continually frustrated by how hard
>>it is to get the sysinit chapter right through
>>the repeated small tweaks we've been doing
>>over the months.  Further, I've started looking
>>again at how to write a sample implementation of
>>this stuff (required for the lsbsi, been missing
>>way too long), and found it not really clear to
>>implement to.
>>  
>"Relying only on /proc/pid/exe is discouraged since this specification 
>does not specify the existence of, or semantics for, /proc."
>(This is actually ment for the distributions, which may use the /proc 
>since they know that content - and use it for start_daemon.)

>"Optionally, if neither of the above methods has determined 
>the process 
>identifiers required, implementations may use unspecified additional 
>methods to locate the process identifiers required."
>This changes the definition. In 2.x we have
>" Compliant implementations may use other mechanisms besides 
>those based 
>on pidfiles, unless the -p pidfile option has been used."
>I use this mechanism currently to run a daemon twice with different 
>configuration files and ports. If it always falls back, the second 
>daemon may not be started (start_daemon) or the wrong one killed 
>(killdaemon).

Nice catch, thanks! We'll need to raise a bug on this as
it's this way in the base 3.0 wording.

>"For example, *X-RedHat-foobardecl*, or *X-Debian-xyzzydecl*." 
>- nothing 
>against this example, but how about (also) adding 
>"X-UnitedLinux-Default-Enabled:" which is used in the real world.

Yes, I think we'll use either a real example, or a totally
fictitious one (not the name of a real distro).

>In total, I really like the rewrite (I think I should re-read it more 
>carefully, though).