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Mike Doherty
Personal blog · hashbang.caprogrammingsecuritysystems
Mike Doherty writes Hashbang.ca, a personal blog at hashbang.ca about programming, security and systems. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover Linux init systems, including why systemd has won out over alternatives. One commenter adds a Perl daemon-framework project as a related approach to writing init scripts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hashbang.ca, by Mike Doherty
What Hacker News says?
Towards the idea that you can write them in another language, we in the Perl community ended up developing something of that nature[1]. It was originally intended to make writing daemons in Perl easier by pulling out common functionality (double fork and such), and giving a consistent clean interface. One of the bigger requested things was the ability to use it as basically the entire init script ([2] for an example…
Comment linking /2012/04/16/wherein-i-realize-the-bliss-of-writing-init-scripts-with-daemoncontrol
on “Why systemd is winning the init wars and other things aren't”Submitted CSRF vulnerability at cloudatcost.com as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Validating SSL Certificates for IRC Bouncers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing init scripts with Daemon::Control as a story · 1 points
HN discussion