26 Mar
2006
26 Mar
'06
21:45
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 15:04 -0600, Peter Van Lone wrote:
what exactly does "the startup sequence is run using make" mean? Does it mean that the startup scripts are produced using make, or ... what?
Not produced using, launched using. make is a utility that's been around for a long time, with well tested features for parallel compilation. They simply started using this for launching things in parallel during launch. Instead of reinventing the wheel to get something that detected what depended on what else, they used the features already present in make