shutdown on BSD and Linux

[Geert Hendrickx]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 04:46:47PM +0000, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> PS:  By the way, recently someone suggested in a FreeBSD mailing list
> that start scripts could be run in parallel if they don't depend on each
> other (which rcorder(8) can easily find out).  It would probably speed up
> booting.  However, I don't know if anyone is actually working on
> implementing that.

That would be way cool.  e.g. my laptop often hangs a while on boot during
ntpdate(8), resolving the ntp server's hostname, or querying it, dunno, but
it could certainly be backgrounded/parallellized.

	Geert