[gentoo-dev] inittab was: Re: Switchup-mode and boottime selector? Was: eselect init

[gentoo-dev] inittab was: Re: Switchup-mode and boottime selector? Was: eselect init

[William Hubbs]

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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 08:30:00AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Because it isn't just editing a file or rebuilding the kernel but also
> have a short trip in single mode to switch back and forth inittab.

inittab is only used by sysvinit and busybox init right?

If so, it is unfortunate that busybox init uses inittab and its inittab
is not compatible with sysvinit.

I'm tending to agree with mgorny that a better fix for this might be to
have busybox use an alternate filename for its inittab, i.e. 
first look for /etc/bb-inittab and use it, then if it can't find that,
use /etc/inittab as a fallback.

What do you think?

William


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[gentoo-dev] Re: inittab was: Re: Switchup-mode and boottime selector? Was: eselect init

[Luca Barbato]

On 05/30/2013 10:52 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 08:30:00AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
>> Because it isn't just editing a file or rebuilding the kernel but also
>> have a short trip in single mode to switch back and forth inittab.
> 
> inittab is only used by sysvinit and busybox init right?

By anything that claims to be init-compatible.

> If so, it is unfortunate that busybox init uses inittab and its inittab
> is not compatible with sysvinit.

Surely is.

> I'm tending to agree with mgorny that a better fix for this might be to
> have busybox use an alternate filename for its inittab, i.e. 
> first look for /etc/bb-inittab and use it, then if it can't find that,
> use /etc/inittab as a fallback.

sending patches should be easy.

> What do you think?

I stated the worst cases, I guess is time to draft stuff and see how it
does behave.

lu