On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:45:39PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: > >last thing that gets run. There is just no reason for this. We should > >start X and initialize the display and get the login prompt up there > >ASAP, and let the system acquire the DHCP lease and start sendmail and > >apache and get the date from the NTP server *in the background while I > >am logging in*. It's not rocket science. > > Such a system needs a drastically different bootup process than > currently > exists, including the ability to specify init-script dependencies. > (Like
Ok, so see Gentoo. Exactly fits your needs, it seems ;-) Dependencies are supported, even paralell execution of init scripts are supported by default design (you need to change only one setting to do this, IMHO, in /etc/conf.d/rc). So it is already solved if you talking about the paralell execution with dependency info in init scripts ... Also the smf ability of Solaris10 seems to be interesting, but I don't want to talk about it, since I have no time to see it in action, I've only read about it, so ... - Gábor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
