Bug#4949: Sysvinit 2.64-1 has a dangling symlink

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

You (Bruce Perens) wrote:
> Hopefully sysvinit isn't using the initrunlvl file any longer. Miquel
> changed it to use a named pipe, because the plain file did not work with
> a read-only root filesystem.

No, but there are still programs around (different powerd's, mainly)
that expect to be able to talk to init using the initrunlvl interface.

Basically it's just the old interface that I left in for backwards
compatibility with *other* programs.

The symlink is needed because some programs expect initrunlvl in
/var/log, others in /etc. I'll get rid of the symlink and let init
check both locations. That code will be surrounded with big
#ifdef COMPATIBLEs

Mike.
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