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 6874D1381F3 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:43:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BA5AE0AA9; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:43:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46FC9E0AA1 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:43:00 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.89,736,1367967600"; d="scan'208";a="25782658" Received: from unknown (HELO rathaus.eclipse.co.uk) ([109.176.172.209]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 24 Jul 2013 18:31:41 +0100 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:32:10 +0100 From: "Steven J. Long" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Fresh install and problem with net.* init.d script Message-ID: <20130724173210.GA3786@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <81cd8b64fd20f43855a535a449411a58@drakonix.fr> <51EDA7DB.90900@gmail.com> <20130724021751.GB1792@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> <20130724100237.2a6c6cae@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130724100237.2a6c6cae@hactar.digimed.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 9855a07e-3fac-4377-a2ba-8af38d4d8a3f X-Archives-Hash: 0bf3b9d32c93a5915352bf7a2a305e4a Neil Bothwick wrote: > Steven J. Long wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > You might as well ask why do you need or want any other form of IPC > > > you already have, as that is what dbus is. It's a very small, light > > > daemon, can run system-wide or per-session and has the potential to > > > many of the IPC implementations you already have. > > > > You might as well just use the existing IPC mechanisms too, > > Yes, lets have lots of IPC mechanisms instead of one daemon that handles > IPC for everything. It's called an "operating system." > While we're at it, let's get rid of syslog and add > file logging code to every program that needs it. cron and at seem a bit > of a waste of space too. Strawmen burn so well, don't they? I know, let's do all process-scheduling in user-space, I mean who needs preemptive multi-tasking when we have such experts in the early userspace at our disposal. User-land threading works really well too: so long as we worship at the altar of the great God Lennart, blocking and synchronisation can be handled via prayer and the sacrifice of a small, modular utility every sunrise. -- #friendly-coders -- We're friendly, but we're not /that/ friendly ;-)