Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 21/48] Both rc.single and rc.shutdown use the same code to kill everything.

2010-09-01 13:03, Dave Reisner:

The _current_ behavior doesn't define an order unless its in DAEMONS. I've reverted _your_ behavior, which I don't feel has proper justification.

I referred to extras/initscripts which indeed does. Please read the code: http://projects.archlinux.org/initscripts.git/tree/rc.shutdown?id=2010.07-1

Suppose I start daemons foo, bar and baz (in that order) after Arch boots. Why then, should the shutdown order of these daemons change merely because I had to restart bar, which is independent of foo and baz?

Because you know which is the right order and rc.shutdown just rolls back what you did. ^^