Re: [gentoo-kernel] I'm not able to get the vertical bar with gensplash after issuing alt+f1 key during the earlier boot stage

[Daniel Drake]

Jimmy Jazz wrote:
> Actually, i have spoken about the fact that a program written in a
> compiled language will not be as flexible as an interpreted one. In
> other word, /sbin/rc should stay a shell script. I'm pretty sure that
> will not please to some of you gentoo developers ;)

I guess that depends on your ability as a C programmer and your 
definition of 'flexible'. As shell interpreters are typically written in 
C I don't think you can fairly say that you can do things in shell 
script which can't be done in C.

baselayout-2 doesn't drop any features that I know about, actually it 
adds several, and it is much much more reliable than its predecessors. 
It solves all the highly reproducible and extremely difficult to fix 
problems that I had with baselayout-1.

And believe me, I tried to fix them, focusing specifically on the 
concurrency issues. I now believe it is *impossible* to write an 
unbreakable and race-free locking mechanism in shell script, which is 
the only realistic way to avoid some of these bugs.

Daniel

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