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I updated the "About" page on the website. I hope that will explain why i |
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prefer a compiled language over a shell script. |
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Wouter |
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On 2 May 2003, Terje Kvernes wrote: |
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> Wouter van Kleunen <kleunen@××××××××××.nl> writes: |
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> > On 2 May 2003, Terje Kvernes wrote: |
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> > > converting init-scripts to XML is a scary process. init-scripts |
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> > > should IMHO be human readable, as atomic as possible, and testable |
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> > > without depending on much more than having a generic shell. in |
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> > > addition to verboseness and lack of readability, XML makes it |
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> > > "interesting" to integrate more complex scripts, like autofs. |
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> > > yes, XML is easier to generate for a machine, but you generally |
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> > > don't generate init-scripts, if you do you probably build them |
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> > > from templates, which aren't XML friendly either. |
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> > local res="$(cat /proc/modules | egrep 'serial' | cut -f1 -d" ")" |
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> > |
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> > remaining="$(cat /proc/mounts | awk `( print $3 " " $2 )'| \ |
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> > grep -E ^'code|nfs|ncpfs|smbfs' | awk '( print $2 | '| sort -r)" |
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> > human readable, i see... hmmmm |
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> it's readable, yes. |
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> > how can you test something like this? |
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> by running it bit by bit on the command line, and testing each |
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> command. of course, you can clean up stuff like the above as well |
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> to make it more readable. then again, how would you achieve the |
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> same as what the script does without doing just the same thing? |
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> > it will break very easily. |
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> not really. there are reasons why one doesn't change the format of |
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> proc mounts. it looks complex, and it is, but it's also very much |
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> tried and true. one could argue about the lack of 'trap' or |
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> something similar tools in the scripts though. |
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> > and writing a init script for a daemon is very simple with my |
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> > system. Not all daemons have an ready to run gentoo init script you |
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> > know. |
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> and a lot of scripts require a great deal of "magic" before they |
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> run. why do you think the initscript for autofs looks the way it |
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> does? because start-stop-daemon automount works? :-) |
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> Terje |
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