Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: what happened to /etc/init.d/hal{d,daemon,whatever} script ?

[Jeremy Olexa <darkside@gentoo.org>]

Andrey Grozin wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Petteri R?ty wrote:
>> Who has been removing die statements? Is this a suggested way of action
>> somewhere by someone?
> As recently discussed on the list, econf dies by itself, and || die 
> should better be removed after econf. The same is true for, e.g., 
> eqmake4. It was discussed (don't have a reference to the thread at hand) 
> that it would be useful to have a table which shows which functions die 
> by themselves, and which not.
> 
> Andrey
> 

I see this asked every X months and never quite figured out why, (this 
isn't personal against you, Andrey)

%% pwd
/usr/lib/portage/bin
%% grep -l die *
ebuild.sh
etc-update
isolated-functions.sh
misc-functions.sh
repoman

So, that means that none of these die:
%% ls do*
dobin*    dodoc*   dohard*  doinitd*  dolib.a*   domo*      dosed*
doconfd*  doenvd*  dohtml*  doins*    dolib.so*  donewins@  dosym*
dodir*    doexe*   doinfo*  dolib*    doman*     dosbin*

or

%% ls new*
newbin*    newdoc*   newexe*    newins*    newlib.so*  newsbin*
newconfd*  newenvd*  newinitd*  newlib.a*  newman*

etc.

Take a look for yourself and you will see why there has never been a 
"table" or anything created. (it is trivial - and you have the source on 
your computer already)

Maybe this should be a question asked on the new dev quizies.."How do I 
tell if something dies on its own or not?"

HTH,
Jeremy