musings on session service mgmt

[Nils Philippsen]

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 12:34 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 18:26 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > I still believe the proper way to fix this is have some kind of
> > babysitter daemon that shares most of its code with the init
> > system. The problems for system startup and service management and for
> > session startup and service management are mostly the same. Both sides
> > would benefit if system and session startup/management would be
> > handled by the same powerful system.
> 
> Indeed, but until that pie-in-the-blue-sky thing is available I think
> it's worthwhile to make this tiny enhancement (it would have been
> quicker to JFDI than entertaining a whole thread about it).

What is an enhancement in your scope would break things in other
people's scopes -- we would have had this discussion either way. By
discussing things first you at least escaped accusations of being part
of a "cabal" doing things "in the secret" and "shoving it down other
people's throats" ;-P.

Nils
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