Re: Multithreaded /sbin.init? Is it possible?

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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On Sun, 2003-09-14 13:59:50 -0500, Eric <eric@cisu.net>
wrote in message <200309141359.50596.eric@cisu.net>:
> > However, I've done a little test with my laptop (P2-266, 128MB RAM).
> > Groupwise parallelized, taking rc2 (not rcS) takes 5sec, vs. 20sec for
> > the non-parallelized traversal. But screen output now is even less
> > readable than before (Ever seen HP-UX starting?)...
> 
> 	I just had tought after sending my previous e-mail. Would it be possible to 
> capture the output of the programs being run? Like each thread would capture 
> the output of the program it runs without being printed to the screen and 
> then when the thread terminates the main program writes it to the screen. 
> That would make the entire message of the program being run atomic and thus 
> eliminate odd echo's out of place and done messages conflicting with others. 
> Although the messages from each group might be printed in an undefined order, 
> you would still get the complete message.

That's not much of a problem. You can even get the messages in proper
order...

MfG, JBG

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