Comment 11 for bug 447649

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 447649] Re: arbitrary remote mount points under FHS directories (incl. /home) block the 'filesystem' signal

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:23:13PM -0000, Christoph Burger-Scheidlin wrote:
> At the moment mountall.conf emits local-filesystems and remote-
> filesystems. This is problematic. In order to be able to mount remote
> filesystems at all, the computer needs networking. Networking however
> depends on local-filesystems. Therefore mountall.conf is emitting two
> events at the same time of which one (remote-filesystems) transitively
> depends on the other (local-filesystems).

No, it is not. "emits" is documentation that a job /may/ emit certain
signals; it does not mean that these signals are emitted automatically when
starting the job.

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