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Bug#683299: unblock: open-vm-tools/2:8.8.0+2012.05.21-724730-3



On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 14:34:11 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:

> > +  * Adding sleep during restart in initscript.
> > 
> > Why one second?
> 
> because it sometimes fails to restart if there's no sleep.
> 
> > Is it enough?
> 
> yes.
> 
Based on what?  If the system is under load, what guarantees that it
won't take more time?

> > Is there a proper way instead of sleeping?
> 
> to the best of my knowledge, this is the proper way these days on how do
> deal with these sort of things in sysvinit initscripts.
> 
Nope.  The proper way is for stop to not return until it's actually
stopped.

Cheers,
Julien

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