[Info-vax] OpenVMS STARTUP Whitepaper

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-12-09 00:37:16 +0000, David Jones said:

> ... haven't decided the best way to handle the case where the prereq 
> component is in the master component table but inadvertantly not in the 
> view for the node. Do you omit the component, ignore the dependency, or 
> automatically pull in the needed component at the same step priority?

For those interested in the topic of startups and startup sequencing 
and dependency analysis, here's a technical introduction to resolving 
dependencies while also detecting dependency deadlocks:

https://www.electricmonk.nl/docs/dependency_resolving_algorithm/dependency_resolving_algorithm.html 


SQLite can be useful for storing the data, particularly for those 
without Oracle licenses and that for whatever reason.


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