Re: [gentoo-dev] eselect init

[Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>]

On 5/28/13 6:19 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> And you actually make the boot depend on:
>
> 1) valid /bin/sh

If it doesn't exist you have a few order of magnitude bigger problem.

> 2) valid /etc/switch-init which would not interfere with boot process.

I guess if you want to switch init system you need that =)

> With switch-init being executed as a shell script, it can do anything.

Yes and that's the beauty of it.

> And I wouldn't be surprised if you made it do various things you'd like
> to be done.

I would be surprised if I'd make it do various things I won't like to be 
done, surely a possibility, albeit unlikely.

> Not to mention what would happen if it gets corrupted into
> binary mess and shell tries to execute that.

Having your rootfs corrupted is quite bad, even horrible if an ephemeral 
file gets corrupted through reboot.

> There's no fallback that could handle shell failures, you know.

I guess your knowledge of shell needs to be expanded, beside that it is 
easier to write an example using shell pseudocode to explain how it 
could work.


That said, here a friendly suggestion: try to be less destructive in 
your comments and fix your mailer. Both can be annoying in the long run.

lu