[PATCH] os: added the -upstart option for Upstart's signaling method.

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Wed Feb 24 02:16:17 PST 2010


On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:15:31 +0200, Oliver McFadden wrote:

> Unfortunately we're stuck with using Upstart, and in the tradition of trying to
> keep as close to upstream as possible, I'm sending this for review...
> 
> According to http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ Upstart is used by a number of
> distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and of course Maemo) so this is probably
> a worthwhile patch.
> 
Those would normally start X from gdm or xinit, though, which handle
that part of the startup, instead of directly from init.  No?

Cheers,
Julien


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