Re: [gentoo-kernel] I'm not able to get the vertical bar with gensplash after issuing alt+f1 key during the earlier boot stage

[Daniel Drake]

Jimmy Jazz wrote:
> Instead /sbin/functions.sh has helped me a lot to write a script
> that does approximately the same but in ash and with candies too :)

Now you're making more sense -- you prefer baselayout written in bash 
because you are copying and mangling its code in ways that the 
developers didn't intend. I see.

FYI, baselayout-2 no longer requires bash.

> Right, a shell is not what handles the best concurrency issues but
> "wait" and "jobs" have been quite improved. If you have an example i
> could try. Also, that makes life exciting and i cheer you up. I'm sure
> you will succeed and improve gentoo even better :)

The problem is that a few baselayout operations can be running 
concurrently, and these processes will share the same resources (e.g. 
service state files). baselayout-1 makes very little effort to serialize 
access to any of these resources, resulting in several highly repeatable 
failure conditions due to races.

The original bug report:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154670

My attempt to fix it:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166545

However, it turns out my locking implementation can be easily broken and 
is not race free.

> I'm not quite good in politics but i will follow your advice :). I just
> have feared you will definitely drop baselayout-1. (anyway, maintaining
> two different kinds of software that do approximately the same thing is
> a pain). I will need to reconvert sooner or later.

I'm not involved in baselayout development, but yes, I am fairly sure 
that baselayout-1 will be completely dropped in the near future. It's 
partially unmaintained at the moment -- there are known bugs which will 
not be fixed in the 1.x branches.

Daniel
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