[Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#849672: Bug#849672: uml-utilities: boot up delay

[Mattia Dongili]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:57:42PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
...
>           3.289s uml-utilities.service
...
> The following code snippet has an explicit sleep, which has to retry for
> a max of 5 secs. 
> 
>         WAIT=5
>         while ! test -e $UML_SWITCH_CTL; do
>             sleep 1
>             WAIT=$(($WAIT - 1))
>             if [ $WAIT -le 0 ]; then
>                 log_warning_msg "$DAEMON never created control socket $UML_SWITCH_CTL"
>                 log_end_msg 1
>                 exit 1
>             fi
>         done
> 
> There must be some reasoning as to why this was done. Perhaps Mattia can
> shed some light here.

That code pre-dates me.
I don't think there was any specific reason other than giving the time
to the daemon do to whatever it needs to do before calling it a success.

-- 
mattia
:wq!