Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>]

Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de> writes:
> On 8/11/19 12:01 PM, Adam Borowski wrote:
>>   restart|force-reload)
>>         log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC"
>>         do_stop
>>         sleep 1
>>         do_start
>>         log_end_msg $?
>>         ;;
>> 
>> Yes, this particular case might fail on a pathologically loaded box or with a
>> very slow chip, but I don't know of a way to ask firmware if something is
>> still winding down, thus what we ship is probably still sanest.
>
> yes, for firmware this makes sense, but I've also seen various sysv
> scripts where people tried to guess the time a service needs to
> shutdown, so some random sleep was added instead of handling it in a
> sane way. This issues are luckily fixed forever with systemd - it just
> knows, whats going on.

LOL! Please try to be serious.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22stop+job+is+running%22


Bjørn