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Article #79Re: Idea for program start-up (long)
From: Kristoffer Eriksson
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1989 08:29
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1989 08:29
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In article <0873.AA0873@chroma> bryan@chroma.UUCP (Bryan Ford) writes:
>I just had an "incredibly brilliant" idea (in other words, probably dumb
>:-), on program start-up. [...] Make a "sister" of
>Mount, which, instead of starting up devices, it starts up resident
>programs. It could use a "Devs:StartList" or something, which would look
>very much like a MountList. Then a program called "Start" traverse the
>StartList, starting all the programs that need to be started.
You're not the first one to come up with this idea. In Unix (System V) the
program is called "/etc/init" and the file is called "/etc/inittab".
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