On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:58:08PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> > The scripts themselves have the ordering dependencies. The startup
> > system runs them in the proper order. I don't know if this is
> > pre-computed or redone each boot.
>
> I'm really curious about this, myself. One of the reasons the SYSV
> scripts have the numeric prefix is so that you know exactly what order
> things will be started in. With the NetBSD stuff, this is not
> immediately obvious though I guess one could have a top level rc file
> with an explicit ordering similar to our various subdir Makefiles,
> but that also gives you another location to edit when dropping
> in a new startup file.
well, assuming you specify all the necessary dependencies, does it
really matter what the specific order is?
i mean i always thought of the numbers in SYSV script names as a hack to
preserve dependencies, rather than a way to preserve a specific order.
the order only needs to exist to preserve dependencies, unless i'm
missing something.
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