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Subject: Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)
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On 06/19/2012 12:39 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> - delay at rc.d scripts - there are some delays inserted.
> 
>> The latter item is the only place where making changes to rc.d is going
>> to help, and only then by parellelizing, and even then you are not
>> really going to gain much since most things at boot time are serial.
> 
> grep sleep /etc/rc.d/* usr/local/etc/rc.d/*
> 
>>
>> So while talk of how to get your favorite boot-time manager into FreeBSD
>> may be entertaining, it's not likely to be productive, and almost
> 
> it is unimportant as FreeBSD don't crash.

OpenRC init scripts lack such delays. They store dependency information,
which enables OpenRC to start them as soon as their dependencies are ready.