Re: Faking a TTY on a pipe/socketpair

On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 08:52:14 GMT
rlhamil@smart.net (Richard L. Hamilton) gabbled:

In article <vit3dg$1quau$1@dont-email.me>,

This was all before systemd came on the scene.

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It spawned other processes, and where the idea of run levels existed,
selected what to spawn based on those.
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It did not do tricky communication with processes, elaborately
manipulate their initial environment, and except for adopting orphans

Which to anyone except poettering and his fanboys its quite obvious it doesn't
need to as a wrapper script can do that quite nicely.

MacOS launchd is arguably even worse insofar as it also has things like
Mach namespaces to deal with.

And XML config. Ugh. Why people persist with the hideousness that is XML when
the much clearer json is pretty much standard now beats the hell out of me.