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!
