upstart 0.5, user-land tools and roadmap

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On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:42, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi at gmail.com> wrote:

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> SysV init has been doing this type of thing for ages -- just in a more
> dumbed down form with runlevels.

Hi Garett,
 Thank you for getting back so quickly.

Thank you for sharing that.

> Upstart brings a number of improvements to the table, but AFAIK there
> hasn't been a push (nor should there be IMO) for upstart to do more
> than handle initial process(es) and job(s). I really don't see the
> added benefit in making Upstart into a system swiss army knife of
> sorts, because that just makes Upstart into a userlevel mini-kernel
> ;).

Could you make it easier for me to understand what you are saying.