[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#519520: Bug#519520: No concurrency for .sh scripts

[Kel Modderman]

On Friday 13 March 2009 20:04:00 Cortese, Matteo wrote:
> 
> Package: sysv-rc
> Version: 2.86.ds1-61
> 
> Init scripts with trailing .sh are treated differently than other
> scripts, which is explained in detail in bug #339955.

Policy no longer requires this special treatment as of 3.8.1 [0]. See #513955.

> The current solution gives the choice to the user of setting the "sh"
> variable to either:
>     "." if he wants .sh scripts to be sourced,
>     "sh" if he wants .sh scripts to be treated like the others.
> 
> In the latter case, however, .sh scripts are NOT treated like the others
> when $CONCURRENCY=shell. A .sh script is executed this way:
> 
>     $debug sh "$script" $action
> 
> while a non-.sh script is executed this other way:
> 
>     $debug "$script" $action &
>     backgrounded=1
> 
> As a result, .sh scripts will never be run in parallel, even in
> runlevels other than S (for which the Policy issue does not apply).

Because policy has been modified to not special mention init scripts ending
with .sh, we are now in a position to modify /etc/init.d/rc to treat all
scripts equally.

Thanks, Kel.

[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/03/msg00008.html