Enhancement thought? requires stanza

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 01:45:18 GMT 2009


Hi Scott and Casey,
    I was thinking about one feature that's lacking in upstart that's
present in sysv init: backwards dependency starting and stopping.
    Here's an example usecase:
    - Service A is dependent on Service B. Right now what you have to
do is start Service B, and because we don't have a means for profiling
jobs, we either would have to have something like:

Service B emits Event B
Service A starts on Event B

    What would be nice is something of the form:
Service A is started
Service B is started as a requirement of Service A

    I'm not sure if this may be the mentality that you're looking for
with upstart, but it would make the tool a lot easier to use for
developers than it currently is. Just my 2 cents...
Thanks!
-Garrett



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