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On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 22:46 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> > -r just changes the sort order, which is probably pointless.
> 
> I'm not wedded to "-r", but since you're proposing this to not use "-r",
> which Ian Lepore suggested after instrumenting /etc/rc.d/initrandom and
> looking at the output, please show a diff of two boots with "-r" and
> without "-r" so can see what the change really is.
> 

I observed that the order of displayed processes could differ from one
reboot to the next, even on an embedded system where little else
differed.  It seemed to me that a difference in order, while small,
might be significant.

-- Ian