rc.d scripts can be missed if they aren't ordered with respect to the early-late divider

Ryan Stone rysto32 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 18:33:13 UTC 2011


On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 04/29/2011 08:29, Ryan Stone wrote:
>> Ultimately, the problem is that we don't have a total ordering over
>> the rc.d scripts.
>
> You're right, but unfortunately it's not possible to do with the mandate of
> supporting diskless boot, and /usr/local on a different (perhaps remote)
> partition.

Right, my phrasing was incorrect.  What I really meant to say is that
the problem is the current rc implementation implicitly assumes that
we have a total ordering when we can't guarantee that.


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