[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Systemd, best parts

[Sergey]

2011/10/24 Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> Interesting ideas.

Thanks.

> How should this socket passing work when init start a shell script
> which in turn start a daemon that should receive the socket?  I fail
> to understand how it could be done.

Init-daemon can just pass the socket descriptor over the environment
variable. For getenv() it does not matter whether daemon was started
directly or from a script.

A simple example of init+script+daemon socket passing attached.

>From the first glance it looks like such code would have to be a part
of `startpar` utility.

> Note that the include file should be outside /etc/ (it is not a
> configuration file) to allow easy upgrades.

Well, as a part of sysvinit rc-scripts, maybe it could be
/etc/init.d/rc-shortcut or /etc/init.d/sysvinit-shortcut.

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Thanks for warm comments
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