[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#582442: Bug#582442: sysvinit: Failing to interrupt some script after upgrade

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 20 May 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Matthieu Castet]
> > I interrupt sometimes fsck (when I don't want to wait), now this
> > doesn't work.
> 
> Wow.  You are braver than me.  I never considered that use case. :)

It is quite common.  Interrupting fsck if it is not in repair mode is safe,
and common.

SIGINT'ing the dhcp-client is also common.

Break that, and you will have a lot of people out after our blood...

Basically, if someone wants to ^C something, let them.

> The parallel starting is done by by startpar, so I guess that is the
> program that need to be adjusted.

Yeah. But how?  SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGQUIT must be DWIM (do what I mean) in
a parallel boot scenario...  probably the best we can do is to have startpar
send the signal to all its children, and if it gets repeated signals in a
row [say, before it gets any SIGCHILD back], have it die.

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  Henrique Holschuh