Proposed 1.0 semantics specification

[Daniel L. Miller]

Scott James Remnant wrote:
>> There as probably much more required methods "on_start on_event
>> on_starting on_failed_dependency ..."
>>
>>     
> "Failed dependency" is an interesting one; Upstart doesn't really
> process jobs in that way - a job simply stays dormant all the time its
> while condition isn't satisfied.
>
> The only time you'd get a "failed to start due to a while condition" is
> if, as a sysadmin, you ran "start JOB" manually -- this is communicated
> back as an error to the start command, other jobs on the system don't
> need to know about it.
>   
Perhaps I'm missing something (probably).  I'm basing the following on 
the assumption that jobs like "starting the mailserver", which happen 
"upon startup after networking initialized" magically happen by Upstart 
parsing the configs.

As a syadmin, if a machine is rebooted, and various processes that are 
supposed to startup DON'T - that's important information!  My particular 
example is a bad one - cuz without mail services or networking its kind 
of hard to e-mail the sysadmin - but do you follow where I'm going?
-- 
Daniel