On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:02:12PM +0200, Josef Spillner wrote: > Am Dienstag, 3. August 2010, 18:24:09 schrieb Steve Langasek: > > ... only between services that have declared a dependency relationship, > > which should obviously *not* be started in parallel. > In the example given by Petter, dhcpd runtime-depends on pdns through some > configuration option. This is not a package dependency. I didn't say package dependency. The only reason this question arises is *because* one service may depend on another to be started first. If there is no dependency relationship *between the services*, they may *already* be started in parallel; so requiring the service to be running before the init script returns neither impacts parallelization in that case, nor benefits services whose init scripts don't specify dependencies. > What am I missing here? Common sense, which dictates that whatever interface a service promises, that interface should be available before the init script returns a successful exit code to the caller. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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