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

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Roger Leigh wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 01:02:57PM +0000, G.W. Haywood wrote:
>> ...
>> The parallel boot system added at least one option which is not mentioned in
>> the rcS man page, 'CONCURRENCY'.  ...
>
> 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.

Correct.

> Nowadays, parallel startup using startpar is the default.  Disabling
> this is not something which is useful ...

Not correct.

> The option could well be removed entirely in future releases.

This would be an inconvenience, at least to me.

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73,
Ged.