Dependencies

[Scott James Remnant]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 09:01 -0400, Sean Russell wrote:

> On Monday 09 October 2006 17:33, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > > Does Upstart generate an event when a job goes into a wait state?
> >
> > Yes, upstart generates events at all job state changes.
> 
> Well, then, all of the situations can have a well-defined, reasonable 
> behavior.  To re-iterate, a conditional requirement is considered 
> satisfied if (0) it isn't present in /etc/event.d, (1) it fails, or (2) 
> it goes into a wait state.
> 
Or is started?

> Or, in Gentoo speak:
> 
> 	need a
> 	need b
> 	after c
> 
Could you elaborate a little more on what the effect of this is?  I'm
not familar with Gentoo's init system.

> This is somewhat tedious for event maintainers.  A better solution would 
> be if jobs can define their own event names, so that "metalog" would 
> generate "logger" events.  This would make systems maintenance much 
> easier, but isn't strictly necessary.
> 
Jobs can emit any event names that they wish through initctl, it would
not be unusual for jobs to agree on a common event that is emitted (e.g.
"mta-ready").

Scott
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