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[Scott James Remnant]

On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 23:22 +0100, Aidan Thornton wrote:

> > I've played with initng as well; I liked it a lot, but it is very easy to
> > wedge initng, and this happens a lot on seemingly trivial upgrades.  So now
> > I'm back to using Gentoo's vanilla init.
> 
> I presume Upstart won't fall into this trap and will have a reliable,
> backwards-compatible way of reloading itself and restoring its state.
> 
Upstart can be restarted by sending it SIGTERM, the new process has all
of the state of the existing one -- and the protocol for transferring
the state is designed to be backwards compatible.

Scott
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