On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:57:43AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> file-rc is sysv-like. I mean something much more exotic, such as an
> initscript subsystem capable of dynamically fetching the init script from
> somewhere else. invoke-rc.d allows that sort of stuff to be implemented if
> invoke-rc.d is the only allowed way to call initscripts.
*shrug* We don't have anything like that, so it's not realy relevant.
> > I don't really think it's a good idea to call maybe-restart for scripts
> > that don't implement it.
> The initscript should just output an error if it is given an unsupported
> action; if it does anything else, that's a bug.
Well, yes, but we shouldn't have random errors occuring all the time in
normal use.
> > Perhaps it'd be better to have
> > invoke-rc.d foo maybe-restart
> > be the way of calling /e/i/foo maybe-restart so it won't get invoked
> > when it's not supported?
> I don't follow you. You can invoke-rc.d foo maybe-restart to call
> maybe-restart directly, yes. It is the way to ask for a maybe-restart, yes.
> What has that to do with using maybe-restart as the fallback action for
> restart out-of-runlevel ?
ie, not having any "fallback" options, just always translating invoke-rc.d
foo blah to /etc/init.d/foo blah or a no-op, depending on runlevel.
That way running a postinst works cleanly whatever runlevel you're in,
and whether you've implemented "maybe-restart" yet or not, and so on.
Cheers,
aj
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