[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Make init.d/skeleton a very simple init.d script?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 02 Feb 2014, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> I've also considered using functions that could be overriden in the
> init.d scripts.  The init-d-script could contain
> 
>   do_restart() {
>      ...
>   }
> 
> and the init.d script could contain a different implementation:
> 
>   do_restart() {
>      ... something else ...
>   }
> 
> The last definition would be used. :) But it would be hard to know if
> do_reload() exist and will do something sensible, so variables are
> perhaps a better approach.  Is there some way to figure out if a
> function exist, without calling it?

Either "command -V", "command -v", or the "type" builtins should do, I
suppose.  Both dash and bash support them.

Note that it is non-trivial to know that the name really is a function due
to aliases, etc.  There is a bashism for this, but dash doesn't support it.
I don't think this detail matters for our intended use, though.

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