Comment 6 for bug 348455

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : Re: [Bug 348455] Re: init: transfer state across re-exec

On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 13:35 +0000, Jacek Konieczny wrote:

> That is why I have started an Upstart branch (lp:~jajcus-jajcus/upstart
> /state-save) to implement full state saving and re-exec with state
> transfer. I hope this can help making Upstart a usable (in all cases)
> replacement for SysVinit.
>
Awesome!

The biggest mental block I had was getting the state out of libdbus
about the state of connections to Upstart, state of messages, etc.

Restarting Upstart shouldn't drop in-progress commands.

Scott
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