Designing a new init: low level communication

[Erich Schubert]

Hi,
> Just for the record, I do not mind changing any semantics in the init scripts,
> configuration file formats, etc. As long as the new system is technically
> superior and is easy to understand and use for users (i.e. administrators

I still have troubles imagining a way for the users to specify the
dependencies, especially when making a difference between "is
started", "is completed" and "is running/available for requests".
Also for the syntax of "needs to be restarted with".
Thats why I started the previous thread...

best regards,
Erich Schubert
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