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From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Idea for program start-up (long)
Message-ID: <1273@pkmab.se>
Date: 16 Jun 89 08:29:26 GMT
References: <0873.AA0873@chroma>
Organization: Peridot Konsult i Mellansverige AB, Oerebro, Sweden
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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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