[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#595431: CTRL-C or parallel boot dichotomy

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:30:35AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Tommy van Leeuwen wrote:
> > Is there any workaround available for this bug? We really need to be
> > able to interrupt the boot process.
> 
> Yes, disable concurrent boot.

If I understand this issue correctly, the current situation is that
you have to choose between:

  a) concurrent boot
  b) ability to use CTRL-C safely


If that's true, then for the squeeze release, we could choose simply
to document this limitation prominently and tag this bug as
squeeze-can-defer.

Alternatively, could the code be changed slightly to ignore CTRL-C if,
and only if, the boot is concurrent?  That would remove the
possibility of creating an unusable system at boot time.  I had a
short look at the code but I don't think I could propose a patch
quickly.  

Also: it would be nice if CONCURRENCY were documented in manpage rcS(5).

Thoughts?
-Steve
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