[Olivier Sessink] > if that fits the needs the best, GPL is fine with me
Thank you. I'll wait for a fixed version with the license info included, and look at testing the speedup after this. >>, but I >> am not sure if I want to use your program or the startpar code to >> start scripts in parallel. :) > > what is the 'startpar' code? It is a script I found in SuSe, running scripts in parallel while serializing the output. The source is in the sysvinit debian package source, and upstream is <URL:ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/init/>. My initial tests with qemu ran into a problem with complete hang after a while. I suspect the problem is related to adjusting the hw clock. > yes, it should for example buffer the standard output, and when a > complete line is received, output that full line. Or perhaps even > buffer 100% of the output.. The startpar program will buffer the output until the script ends, or a timeout trigger, whatever happen first. It seem to work fine when I test it manually, but as I said above, it hangs the boot some times. > a bigger issue might be if scripts require user input. For example > fsck might need that. So perhaps the init.d dependencies should > allow a "don't run in parallel" option too. Yes, this is also an issue. Not sure how startpar handle it. There is an interactive flag used by insserv and possibly also startpar, but I have not investigated it yet. I've focused on getting the dependencies documented so far. _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
