ubuntu 6.10 and upstart

[Dazed_75]

A while back I asked if anyone knew how the init replacement upstart worked
in ubuntu 6.10.  JT pointed me to a design document for it which appeared to
be more of a goal description.  Turns out the reason I could not find any
information about the implementation is that only the first steps are taken
in 6.10.  There is probably more information in the developer groups/lists,
but I did not go there.

What I did find was /usr/share/doc/upstart/README.Debian.gz which is basicly
an faq but shows that a lot has not been implemented in 6.10 which is a most
reasonable step-wise approach.  I also found a perl script at
/usr/lib/upstart/migrate-inittab.pl though I have not done any perl in 15
years.

My admittedly crude searches make me think the shell of an implementation
has been done but still running under init which is still PID 1.  I have not
yet found any implementation that actually processes events but that may
well be my lack of skills and time to investigate.  I have not found all the
hooks,

Is anyone else interested in this enough that they are looking into it as
well?

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