Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:36:43 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, villa.alberto@gmail.com, freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/138460: [patch] start local rc scripts in background Message-ID: <4A9E82FB.5030202@FreeBSD.org>
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I object to this patch on at least 2 grounds. First the lack of BEFORE
in a script does not mean that it is safe to background it. Some other
script could easily depend on the service directly via REQUIRE, or
(unfortunately) there could be indirect dependencies that are not
properly labeled now because we've never needed to label them.
Personally I actively discourage the use of BEFORE because I think it
makes it harder to debug ordering problems although it is occasionally
necessary.
Second it is actually fairly common for locally installed scripts from
the ports tree at least to depend on each other, and this is not a bug.
The way to approach this would be to add a flag, probably in rc.conf,
to indicate that it is safe to background a given service. Then
rc.subr would have to grow support for this but that shouldn't be too
hard. If you'd like to follow up in that regard you should send a
message to freebsd-rc@freebsd.org.
Unless someone else really thinks this is a good idea I plan to close
this PR.
Doug
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