On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Does someone have an interest in pushing these proposals > through? What is needed is to have the skeleton code written by Please have a look at policy proposal #76868 (invoke-rc.d). It has strong ties to both #60979 (restart, maybe-restart) and #20373 (start-stop-service). You'll notice that the initial proposal of #76868 superceeded #20373 AND included a partial solution to #60979 (maybe-restart, although named restart-if-running), but that I had to give up on the idea because it was considered a contentious issue that deserved a proposal of its own, in order not to delay #76868. I still intend to propose restart-if-running (revised version of #60979), and I have skeleton POSIX sh code ready for that. If start-stop-daemon is used to start the daemon, 'restart-if-running' is quite easy and clean to implement. I am just waiting for #76868 to be either rejected or that it receives another second (and therefore is approved) to send in the new proposals. > Even then, it can only be recommended in policy until it gains > some acceptance in packages out there. I'm inclined to add this type of stuff to policy as a (strong ?) recommendation, and change it to a requirement when most packages are already implementing it. > In the meanwhile, I am inclined to mark these reports as > old-proposals, (there has been little concrete action on this for a > while, and the problem has been on the BTS for nearly three years > now). Well, I tried to address all of them in #76868 but had to step back. I still am going to try to flesh these issues out in new proposals once #76868 is dealt with. Since #76868 superceedes #20373, I suppose #20373 could be either merged with #76868 or marked as an old proposal. As for #60979, I intend to write a new proposal in both #60979 and the discussion available in #76868... so I certainly don't oppose marking #60969 as an old proposal... but please do NOT flush it yet. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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