Bug#211784: Which initscript has the problem?

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Fri, 27 Aug 2004 23:47:43 +0200,
Thomas Hood wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 23:13, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > > Which initscript are we talking about here?
> > 
> > nis
> 
> So why not use the --retry option on the start-stop-daemon
> lines in the stop() function?

We're talking about libc6.postinst start-stop code (line:264).  We
don't execute start-stop-daemon directly.  So I think --retry option
issue is out of scope.

Some /etc/init.d restart code does not use --retry.  "inetd", "lpd",
and so on.

So I think we can't guarantee daemon restart exactly.  Instead, we use
workaound technique; stop, wait 2 seconds, and start.  It's sure that
we might submit bugs for those restarting-daemons to support --retry
option, though.

Regards,
-- gotom