From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 393881381F3 for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 10:25:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC175E0B51; Sat, 25 May 2013 10:25:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from foo.stuge.se (foo.stuge.se [212.116.89.98]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A029AE0B49 for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 10:25:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 23675 invoked by uid 501); 25 May 2013 10:25:03 -0000 Message-ID: <20130525102503.23674.qmail@stuge.se> Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 12:25:03 +0200 From: Peter Stuge To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] eselect init Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <51A08A68.3020900@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51A08A68.3020900@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 28f8f82f-6b94-45f3-b326-1030b4c55424 X-Archives-Hash: 478989cf4f4ef237ac42685324b9da47 Luca Barbato wrote: > - init gets effectively switched only at boot/reboot Please not on reboot, because an unclean shutdown shouldn't leave the system in limbo. On boot could work, except that it does add more steps (= more fragility) to the boot process, which I think everyone wants to avoid. I would actually expect the change to take effect immediately. //Peter