My understanding of runit is that it doesn’t do dependencies in a built-in way, which means that every complex implementation I’ve seen—e.g., genuinely trying to replace init—ends up reinventing it in a bespoke way. I do genuinely believe that’s 90% of it. Honeslty, runit and LibreSSL are the two reasons I use Void in prod (where I have my own bespoke way of doing it), so I love it. I’m just acknowledging the issue.
The idea of supervising processes and modeling them as units are a good thing.
Then there’s this other thing called the actual implementation.
Of which systemd-escape is only a part. This article could have gone deeper into the “sucks”.
Speaking of implementations: runit is the bee’s knees.
Too few people know of runit, but it was way ahead of its time.
Such a shame it never got wide adoption. Is that due to distro company politics or what? :/
It’s used pretty widely in the Chef community.
My understanding of runit is that it doesn’t do dependencies in a built-in way, which means that every complex implementation I’ve seen—e.g., genuinely trying to replace
init—ends up reinventing it in a bespoke way. I do genuinely believe that’s 90% of it. Honeslty,runitand LibreSSL are the two reasons I use Void in prod (where I have my own bespoke way of doing it), so I love it. I’m just acknowledging the issue.