[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Grant Taylor]

On 4/22/24 20:16, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> The one thing that smf and systemd have is the ability to watch a 
> process and restart it if it crashes.

That's nothing new.

init has been watching processes and restarting them if they crash for 
the 25 years that I've been messing with Linux.

Perhaps SysV / BSD init scripts didn't utilize that capability.

I did via /etc/inittab.

> Many people find this very important, although personally I suspect 
> that if your service is crashing a lot that you should fix it rather 
> than rely on something else to restart it.

Agreed.

> Something else that they do provide is automated management of 
> dependencies to start everything in order without the admin having 
> to manually set the order of execution up.  This can be a benefit 
> and if done well can also speed boot times, but I am not sure that 
> this is necessary to call a startup mechanism a service manager.

:-)

I sort of suspect that people are wanting something to differentiate 
systemd / SMF from predecessors and using a different name to indicate 
different capabilities.

> This is not likely to be a thread in which anyone will learn much, 
> I am sorry to say.

Maybe.



-- 
Grant. . . .