[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#472587: sysvinit: managing the order of /etc/rc* symlinks is a slowing nightmare

[alex bodnaru]

Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.86.ds1-54
Severity: wishlist


hi,

sorry to bother, but here's a snipet of out of box thinking:

instead of setting the number of starting/killing of each init.d 
entry, i'd suggest each init.d script should name the processes 
it needs to run in order to be started. a list for each runstate 
may also help.

from here, package dependencies may be also deduced, like with 
shlibs. anyway, guessing the correct number for a new package is 
highly problematic.

an user may alter the order by adding processes to the list in a 
script.

at init time, a scan of the dependencies should generate up to a 
few lists of processes that are unrelated to each other, that may 
be run as threads, to save time.

best regards,

alex

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages sysvinit depends on:
ii  initscripts                  2.86.ds1-54 Scripts for initializing and shutt
ii  libc6                        2.7-6       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                  2.0.59-1    SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsepol1                    2.0.11-1    Security Enhanced Linux policy lib
ii  sysv-rc                      2.86.ds1-54 System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii  sysvinit-utils               2.86.ds1-54 System-V-like utilities

sysvinit recommends no packages.

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