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



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