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Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#339955: sysv-rc: /etc/init.d/*.sh should be sourced in runlevel S



On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 11:33:44PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> >    "Also, if the script name ends `.sh', the script will be sourced
> >    in runlevel `S' rather that being run in a forked subprocess, but
> >    will be explicitly run by `sh' in all other runlevels".

> What a strange thing for policy to specify.  :)

> This will make it impossible to speed up the rcS.d boot by running
> scripts in parallel.  It does not sound sensible to me.

It's perfectly sensible: if the scripts were meant to be run in parallel,
they shouldn't have the ".sh" extension...

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