Re: [gentoo-dev] Init replacement

[Wouter van Kleunen <kleunen@cs.utwente.nl>]

I updated the "About" page on the website. I hope that will explain why i
prefer a compiled language over a shell script.

Wouter

On 2 May 2003, Terje Kvernes wrote:

> Wouter van Kleunen <kleunen@cs.utwente.nl> writes:
>
> > On 2 May 2003, Terje Kvernes wrote:
> >
> > > converting init-scripts to XML is a scary process.  init-scripts
> > > should IMHO be human readable, as atomic as possible, and testable
> > > without depending on much more than having a generic shell.  in
> > > addition to verboseness and lack of readability, XML makes it
> > > "interesting" to integrate more complex scripts, like autofs.
> > >
> > > yes, XML is easier to generate for a machine, but you generally
> > > don't generate init-scripts, if you do you probably build them
> > > from templates, which aren't XML friendly either.
> >
> > local res="$(cat /proc/modules | egrep 'serial' | cut -f1 -d" ")"
> >
> > remaining="$(cat /proc/mounts | awk `( print $3 " " $2 )'| \
> >      grep -E ^'code|nfs|ncpfs|smbfs' | awk '( print $2 | '| sort -r)"
> >
> > human readable, i see... hmmmm
>
>   it's readable, yes.
>
> > how can you test something like this?
>
>   by running it bit by bit on the command line, and testing each
>   command.  of course, you can clean up stuff like the above as well
>   to make it more readable.  then again, how would you achieve the
>   same as what the script does without doing just the same thing?
>
> > it will break very easily.
>
>   not really.  there are reasons why one doesn't change the format of
>   proc mounts.  it looks complex, and it is, but it's also very much
>   tried and true.  one could argue about the lack of 'trap' or
>   something similar tools in the scripts though.
>
> > and writing a init script for a daemon is very simple with my
> > system. Not all daemons have an ready to run gentoo init script you
> > know.
>
>   and a lot of scripts require a great deal of "magic" before they
>   run.  why do you think the initscript for autofs looks the way it
>   does?  because start-stop-daemon automount works?  :-)
>
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