Am Sonntag, 14. Juni 2015 schrieb Laurent Bercot: > On 14/06/2015 15:29, Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > And I thought the historic solution would be to give your web printing > > service an id higher than cups, eg.: > > > > /etc/rc*/S04cups > > /etc/rc*/S99awsomewebprinter > > > > Together with the nightmare from unix museum (aka fork when ready) it > > simply works. > > No, it doesn't. > The S04cups script will start cups, spawn the process, but exit before the > service is ready; your sysv-rc mechanism will only see S04cups die, think > it's okay, and start S99awsomewebprinter. There is a race condition and > the web printing service may be started too early. > Unless cups implements readiness notification, and S04cups waits for this > notification before returning. Then S99awsomewebprinter will only be > started once the cups service is *actually* running. > > It's not a theoretical problem. It's a very real one. Some daemons take > ages to get ready after they've been started, their needed prep work is > longer than it takes for a shell script to exit and another one to be > spawned, and the race condition is real. > > Again, depending on your needs, you may not have experienced it, or you may > not care. That's fine. But it's still there. >
Hm, that's not the point. The S04cups you takt about does "fork befor ready", not "fork after ready". If it's implemented as "fork befor ready", then it's most likely a bug, 'cause that's the whole point of the order of the startup scripts. "fork before ready" would be equal to "start all startup scripts in parallel" - which does not work. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA. Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp Einnehmerstraße 14 A-4810 Gmunden Tel.: +43 650 82 11 724 email: off...@klepp.biz dr.kl...@gmx.at _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng