Re: Heads Up: shutdown keyword added to 34 rc.d scripts.

On 2008-07-16 23:03, David Schultz wrote:
> A niftier trick would be to actually denote the shutdown
> dependencies between apps. Then SIGTERM (or whatever the
> appropriate shutdown operation is) can happen in parallel as much
> as possible, without accidentally shutting down a service before
> dependent services have had a chance to clean up. There's probably
> not as many interesting deps for shutdown as there are for
> startup...

Possibly just the "reverse" of the startup deps?  For example, if baz is
dependent on foo and bar, the startup order is:

1. foo & bar (possibly parallel)
2. baz

at shutdown, we'd get the reverse:

1. baz
2. foo & bar (possibly parallel)

However, this may not be so easy for the total dependency graph of
everything under /etc/rc.d (not to forget /usr/local/etc/rc.d). ;)