On Fri, 16 Jan 2015, Wayne Marshall wrote:

> Your assertion sounds scary and foreboding in theory, but is not an
> issue in practice.

You've never had a system crawl when some process is being restarted every 
second? For example, apache?

> Certainly not an issue with the example runscript provided.

Very good to know.

> 
> Wayne
> http://b0llix.net/perp/
> 
> 
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 11:11:06 -0500 (EST)
> Charlie Brady <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Fri, 16 Jan 2015, Wayne Marshall wrote:
> > 
> > > The better paradigm for dependency checking is this:  for a service
> > > with any unmet dependency, fail immediately.
> > 
> > That's great in theory, but can be very expensive in CPU and other 
> > resources in practice. The dependency check code needs to be very 
> > lightweight.
> > 
> 
> 

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