netconf and upstart

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Thomas Hood <jdthood at gmail.com> [2007.05.10.2130 +0200]:
> With hook scripts alone, the response to each event is programmed in
> its own script (one for interface up, one for interface down, one for
> APM suspend, one for APM resume, etc. -- lots of conffiles -- lots of
> fun for package maintainers) and dependencies on job states are, if
> implemented at all, subject to races and deadlocks: two events can
> happen at about the same time, resulting in two hook scripts running.

Could happen, but under what circumstances, assuming the two hooks
actually have to compete for the same resource?

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