Linda Walsh said the following on 04/13/2013 03:04 AM:
Faster to execute -- yes, easier to understand, maintain, develop-for -- certainly not to anyone who knows shell. Maybe after it's been around and become a standard for 'N years', but doesn't look alot like shell scripts that have run the OS (including 1970's shell scripts for unix) for the past 40+ years.
So long as you have this hang-up about scripts you will never grok systemd. And as someone who has been using UNIX for nearly 40 years ... You obviously don't understand why the shell was used for so many functions in the first place, just as you don't seem to understand why /usr/bin and /usr/lib were introduced in the first place. And yes, Linda, I understand shell, and more to the point I fond systemd easier to understand than the ad-hoc mess that is the collection of start-up scripts ... I recall whey System V came out and the detested UNIX Systems Group introduced the 'runlevels' and shoe-horned all those scripts into place and forced on us the - as we called it at the time - straight-jacket of the protocols and confinement that went with them. Other systems - BSD, Solaris, said "No Way!" and stuck with their own approach. Then there was SCO ... Coherent ... Oh, and then was also IBM's AIX and the VRM and HP's HP/UX that didn't look like anything else and refused to tie its revisions in with anyone else and refused to use a RS-232 standard (e.g.for serial consoles) that was like anyone else. So don't try and make out that everything was hunky-dory and coherent and sensible for the last "40+" years before systemd. -- Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. Thomas H. Huxley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org