On 08/28/2007 03:47 AM, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
On the OLPC, we were concerned that the old initscript infrastructure had a considerable overhead. Would this change have a beneficial impact on speed?
Now I've sneaked in /lib/lsb/init-functions and it's apparent from the design that it's going to increase the overhead sensibly (it sources the old functions file multiple times).
This transition would be a good time to rewrite the old init functions in C or speed them up in their present shell form by dropping some old functionality.
If there are no resources to do it, I hereby volunteer to do this work in due time, provided there's interest from the current redhat-lsb maintainers to merge my changes back.