Re: update-rc.d sequence number for hpoj (HP OfficeJet Linux driver)

[Jules Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk>]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:46:53PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:06:31PM +0100, Jules Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk> was heard to say:
> > Good project here for a brave coder:
> > 
> > Allow start-up scripts to only specify their dependencies (they can
> > declare packages that must be init'ed before them). At start-up time,
> > work up the graph from the bottom, guaranteeing only to start things
> > after their dependencies are already running.
> 
>   There was some discussion on debian-bsd that one of the *BSDs
> (NetBSD?) has something like this already.

Interesting.  Anybody got pointers?

Of course, the coding itself would be trivial. (Given that the entire
graph is small enough to fit in to a small piece of memory, efficiency
isn't really an issue). The thing that makes it scary is just wanting
the init management system to be reliable and robust.

Although, properly written, the whole point is that this does make things
more robust...


Jules