Quoting Niall O Broin (niall at magicgoeshere.com):
> On 28 Aug 2006, at 14:43, Robert Sweetnam wrote:
> >http://www.netsplit.com/blog/work/canonical/upstart.html>> Yowsa - when I started reading this I thought "Oh dear - silly boy
> read init and saw inet" but on reading further, I see that it's a
> launchd clone and plans to replace init, and inetd, and crond, and
> who knows WTF else.
>> Really, you have to wonder why people want to change things that
> aren't fundamentally broken.
It's not a new idea, and in fairness they _are_ trying to address a few
real problems -- but the notion of blithely rebuilding the system on
remote procedure calls, of all things, tends to give me nightmares about
the likely severe security problems.
--
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