Re: Faking a TTY on a pipe/socketpair

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

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:23:13 -0000 (UTC), Muttley wrote:
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But the core part should really just be limited to starting the
machine and getting enough things running for a user to log on (or
if its a black box to do its task).

>
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. Something
Poettering never understood.