Steven Chamberlain dixit: >Actually, even if they forked in the same order every time, they might >not be *ready* in the same order. That would be the rationale for >readiness protocols and other features of the more complex init systems.
Strong disagree. This actually is a bug in the initscripts in question that they return before the service is operational. Fixing this does not require exchanging PID 1 at all. In fact, there was some posting on Planet Debian where someone used #!/path/to/some-initscriptwriting-helper instead of shell for them. bye, //mirabilos -- Support mksh as /bin/sh and RoQA dash NOW! ‣ src:bash (268 (291) bugs: 0 RC, 188 (204) I&N, 80 (87) M&W, 0 F&P) ‣ src:dash (89 (106) bugs: 2 RC, 43 (49) I&N, 44 (55) M&W, 0 F&P) ‣ src:mksh (2 bugs: 0 RC, 0 I&N, 2 M&W, 0 F&P, 1 gift) http://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/d/dash.png is pretty red, innit? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

