Re: Faking a TTY on a pipe/socketpair

On 2024-12-11, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 08:33:29 -0000 (UTC), Muttley wrote:
>

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 20:55:05 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wibbled:

>
One thing lacking from sysvinit is, while it can start a service, it
cannot ensure the service was started properly, and it cannot perform
reliable service shutdown. So the job of service management was really
only half-done.

 
It doesn't need to , it can just spawn off a script or some other
program which does that which is entirely inline with the unix
philosophy.

>
Which is where the trouble starts.
>

Something Poettering never understood.

>
Poettering understands that services don???t just to be started, they also
need to be managed and shut down cleanly.

My God, how did we all manage running services before systemd came along?