systemd: Is it wrong?

[Neil Horman]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 10:57:54PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> One of the maintainers of systemd and I  have been working 
> together on trying to convert the NFS SysV init scripts
> into systemd services. Here is the long trail... 
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699040
> 
> The point is this, with fairly complicated system, 
> some events need to have happen, like loading modules,
> before other events happen, like setting parameters of 
> those loaded modules. 
> 
> Currently the ExecStart commands can be started and end 
> before the ExecStartPre even start. This means setting
> modules parameters within the same service file are 
> impossible.
> 
I would have though intuitively that Pre commands would complete prior to
ExecStart command in the same service file.  To not do so seems like a bug to
me.
Neil