dude care to have a bit of patience before reassigning back, that be really nice.
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 08:45:59AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > On 05.06.2012 00:45, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > Processing commands for [email protected]: > > > >> reassign 676001 busybox > > Bug #676001 [initramfs-tools] initramfs-tools: busybox's switch_root > > doesn't handle /proc or /sys moving > > Bug reassigned from package 'initramfs-tools' to 'busybox'. > > When reassigning bugs like this, care to explain the reasoning > too, so that it wont be necessary to send a followup questions > like this one? > > I disagree it is a busybox problem, and don't think it is a > switch_root business (be it from busybox or from util-linux). switch_root in util-linux does it. > There are a few special directories which needs to be moved > or umounted. This includes /proc, /dev, /sys and not mentioned > here /run. These directories might be mounted in the new root > already, or there may be some option passed to initramfs to > not mount these, or there may be other local policy or whatever > decisions. All that can't be handled and can't be known to > switch_root -- this is exactly why we have initramfs/init as > a script, to be able to handle various local usecases/policies > and made it extendable. If you name a command switch-root and not run-init, you'd have to take care to emmulate what the original command does. In this case it is util-linux is clearly predating busybox and thus busybox is buggy not fully implementing the command. -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
