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    * User job logging
      (totally different design to system job logging for performance and security reasons. Not yet available).
    * Enhanced Upstart test framework in NIH library.

Summary

My name is James Hunt, and I work for Canonical as a member of the FoundationsTeam working on Upstart and other early-boot and plumbing technologies.

Info

Specs

Contributions

Precise

  • Upstart
    • "console log" facility allowing job output to be logged (bug 328881)

    • Default console value of "log" so all job output logged by default.

      • (has already found some long-standing bugs in other packages since errors are now visible!)
    • "initctl notify-disk-writeable" facility to allow jobs *ending* before the disk becomes writeable to be logged

      • (this even works for jobs which "start on startup").

    • User job logging
      • (totally different design to system job logging for performance and security reasons. Not yet available).
    • Enhanced Upstart test framework in NIH library.

Oneiric

Natty

Significant Bugs

  • Bug 771372: required taking a holistic approach and seeing the real problem, not just patching the very particular problem reported.

  • Bug 829980: required tracing the problem through Upstart's udev bridge, D-Bus, udev and the kernel. Identified fact that udev is not fully specified (precise format of data is not defined).

  • Bug 912558: worked closely with Daviey and community members on this "Critical" bug to identify the problem (rather a bizarre one which proved difficult to track down!) and find a fix.

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