parallel boot with synchronised output

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Mon Nov 14 22:50:39 UTC 2005


[Olivier Sessink]
> I applied the patch from Petter, and added a lot of new code,
> buffering all output from each script, and after the script has
> finished, showing that output in one block. So we now have a
> parallel init without the output mess that the previous version
> created.

This sounds cool.  Do you handle time jumps, very
long-running/non-terminating scripts and interactive scripts as well?

Is it possible to get it to run the script in sequence (aka no
parallelization) as well?  I suspect it would be nice for
debugging. :)




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