Upstart config file generation

[Scott James Remnant]

The cookbook explanation describes a known bug in Upstart (
https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/568860)

I would really rather we didn't start writing scripts and binaries to work
around bugs instead of writing patches to fix them.

Scott

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Mark Russell <mark.russell at canonical.com>wrote:

> The Cookbook explanation might be helpful:
>
>
> http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#block-another-job-until-yours-has-started
>
>
> On 05/04/2011 01:56 PM, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > I don't understand what you mean by this.
> >
> > You will need to be more verbose in your explanation.
> >
> > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Clint Byrum <clint at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Excerpts from Scott James Remnant's message of Wed May 04 09:48:09 -0700
> >> 2011:
> >>> Right, but this still doesn't explain what it does or why Upstart can't
> >>> already do this.
> >>
> >> The issue is that upstart only blocks on goal changes, not on completion
> >> of the goal.
> >>
> >> So if you have an OR condition, and the two things happen one after the
> >> other, it has been my observation that the second event does not block,
> >> because the goal is already 'start'.
> >>
> >> Its entirely possible that I misunderstood the problem I was having,
> >> but this was the solution I came up with, and has been in place for
> >> statd and portmap in Ubuntu for a while now.
> >>
> >
>
>
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