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On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 10:27:05PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 19:54, Seemant Kulleen wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 09:45, david@×××××××××.com wrote: |
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> > > what do you mean by modularise ? As in... have a core peice of code |
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> > > for baselayout you can wrap a "heavy" layer or a "lite" layer around ? |
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> > > or... just including a 'baselayout-lite' version of every init |
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> > > script with each package ? |
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> > The first |
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> Well, what will be too heavy? The core is |
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> /sbin/{rc,runscript,runscript.sh,functions.sh} and stuff in |
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> /lib/rcscripts. They only depend on bash and gawk. |
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yeah... but lets take a look at the size of those files.. |
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redhate root # wc -l /sbin/runscript /sbin/rc /sbin/runscript.sh |
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/sbin/functions.sh |
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1 /sbin/runscript |
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650 /sbin/rc |
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529 /sbin/runscript.sh |
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623 /sbin/functions.sh |
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1803 total |
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for an embedded system... do we really need 500-600 lines of sourced |
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bash scripts to see a colored [ Ok ] ? |
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I'm not sure about the other people here, but startup times are very |
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crucial for my embedded platform, and on a machine with fairly limited |
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resources things like sourcing that much bash is going to take a long |
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time for each service... |
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