[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#692559: general: Information missing from man page for rcS

[Roger Leigh]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 01:02:57PM +0000, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> Package: initscripts
> Severity: normal
> 
> The man page for rcS is dated 16 January 2006.
> 
> The parallel boot system added at least one option which is not mentioned in
> the rcS man page, 'CONCURRENCY'.  This option is mentioned in for example
> 
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html
> 
> but it takes a bit of finding (and, given the values found for the existing
> defaults, the value suggested there is implausible).

This is intentionally undocumented.

In previous stable releases, concurrent boot was optional, and
if you wanted to try out parallel boot, you had to enable it
using CONCURRENCY.

Nowadays, parallel startup using startpar is the default.  Disabling
this is not something which is useful, and so it's not documented as
a tweakable option.  The option could well be removed entirely in
future releases.


Regards,
Roger

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