Re: init.d script dependencies for etch?

[Humberto Massa <humberto.massa@almg.gov.br>]

martin f krafft wrote:

> also sprach Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> [2005.04.01.2104 +0200]:
>  
>
> > > Uh, this looks like a "pull" type of thing in which ever init.d
> > > script starts its dependencies. I don't think this is a good idea.
> > >      
> > No, it is not. The dependencies are cached.
> >    
>
> Cached? As in queried beforehand? As in two-pass algorithm, once
> iterating init.d with 'depends' as option, then with 'start' ?
>
> Yeah, that sounds nice.
>  
My sarcasm detector went off with this one, so I'll try to intervene. 
AFAIK the Gentoo /etc/rc does the following:
1. for all init.d scripts, read it, call depend(), determine its 
dependencies, store its start() function somewhere;
2. for all dependency-ordered determined, call the start() functions 
paralelizing when possible

And, yes, it's very nice.

HTH
Massa