Re: Faking a TTY on a pipe/socketpair

The trouble is with any support scripts, not with init. I've written a
number of init scripts with a lot of surrounding logic.

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I???m sure you have. Which means you are familiar with the wholesale copying
and pasting of boilerplate from one script to the next. ???What does this
bit do???? ???Don???t bother thinking too hard, just stick it in, just in case.???

Ah describing bad programming practice. The same thing happens when
people just cut and paste anything without knowing what they are doing.

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God knows how I'd do that with systemd ...

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Figure out what the directives do (they???re all documented), and which
settings will achieve the result you want.

Nah, as you say above just cut and paste and not think about any diffiicult
bits you need to read up on :-)

Most of the time, your service
file will be very simple and very short, since all the common cases are
already covered.
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Poettering understands that services don???t just to be started, they al
so need to be managed and shut down cleanly.

Actually a service should know how to shutdown itself cleanly and should
document how that is achieved.