systemd (Was Re: tmpfs for strategic directories)

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 26 May 2010, Simo Sorce wrote:

> While you don't edit them *all* the time, it is something that is done
> regularly, and it is something most admins can do with ease.
> Turn them in a C program and you left admins out in the cold, most of
> them.
>
> I would be very, very wary of accepting a C "init script".
> An unmanageable system is a useless system.

+20 million.

I couldn't agree more. They need to be scripts, considering how seldom 
they actually run it makes even less sense to chase down optimization in 
them by making them compiled.

-sv