Re: faster boot
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:08:11AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 02:44, Russell Coker wrote:
> > Surely if a daemon takes a long time before it detaches from it's terminal and
> > "goes daemon", then you can have a parent process put it in the background
> > and direct it's output to some convenient log file.
>
> System V initscripts must not return until the services they start
> are ready to use. Otherwise running initscript Y after initscript
> X from /etc/rc?.d/ doesn't guarantee that Y can make use of X.
> Providing such guarantees is the whole point of the system. (Or
> have I somehow missed your point?)
Of course there is a major violation already in Debian.
See pcmcia-cs init script:
/etc/init.d/pcmcia
It returns before it finish initialization.
In slow ISA system, I had problem and root cause was this :-)
Osamu
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