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Autore: Rainer Weikusat
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To: dng
Oggetto: Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems
Laurent Bercot <ska-devel@???> writes:
> On 24/09/2015 17:51, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
>> If it starts working within less than five minutes, users will forget
>> about it faster than they could complain, especially for a system which
>> is usually supposed to be running. But that's actually a digression.
>
> Five minutes? And you think it's acceptable?


As a matter of fact, I know this is more than acceptable and less than
actually needed.

[...]

>> Provided a program is supposed to work this out on its own, this
>> information can be modelled as 'a dependency'. But you could equally
>> well modify rc.local to do a
>>
>> mount-all-filesystem
>>
>> before a
>>
>> start-the-services
>
> You mean, removing the mounts from your service manager? Sure, you
> can always do everything by hand.


That's a false dichotomoy and I 'meant' that simple ordering
requirements of this kind don't have to be worked out by complicated
programs at run time.

NB: I've (also purposely) ignored both the flamebaits and the wrong
assumptions about my situation and "situations" in general.