rc improvements (wanted?)

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2008-Jul-17 20:56:04 +0200, David Naylor <naylor.b.david at gmail.com> wrote:
>* Add stagnation or parallel support (all scripts in a stage can be executed 
>concurrently without conflict)

This sounds like a worthwhile improvement for most cases.  Note that
it probably needs some degree of rate limiting - just forking off
dozens of startup scripts may be counter-productive - especially if
they are I/O bound.

>The main reason for this work was to increase start-up time (on the userland 
>side) by running as many scripts concurrently as possible.

'Reduce' maybe...

>method but that would mean moving most of the controlling logic into a 
>binary).  

I don't see how to safely do all the parallelisation using scripting
tools that are available in the base system

>[[Side note: I stopped short of actually field testing the concurrent
>changes to rc (rcorder and the simplifications to rc scripts works]]

Ummm,..  Unless I've misunderstood something, you have just said that
your main driver for this was implementing concurrency but you haven't
actually tested that.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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