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And Solaris SMF. There basically seem to be ~three generations of unix init: 1. Agglutination of shell scripts 2. "Oh wow, this is getting annoying"-phase: Wr

And Solaris SMF. There basically seem to be ~three generations of unix init: 1. Agglutination of shell scripts 2. "Oh wow, this is getting annoying"-phase: Wrapper for scripts (SRC SMC openrc etc pp) 3. Service supervision daemons (SMF, launchd, systemd)

bayindirh 1y ago
Probably. I don't think systemd is a mere "Service supervision daemon", but I'm not in the mood for a can of worms today.
- jcgl 1y ago
  Yeah, I'd probably call systemd something like "an event- and graph-based orchestrator."