initscript "feature" questions

[Bill Nottingham]

Jon Masters (jonathan at jonmasters.org) said: 
> Specifically, why is there the broken assumption that everything must
> relate to a daemon (which is now called a subsystem), 

Huh?

> and that this must
> be first running with a lock file before the killscript can run?

We only shut things down that have been started successfully (have a lock file.)

Bill