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Re: broken sysvinit?



On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 10:13:17AM -0300 , Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Petr Cech wrote:
> > is it just me, or is /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh really horribly broken?
> > This is a sniper from it. It bafs on the exec 10  (as expected) and doesn't
> > remount root rw, so the booting is rather painfull.
> 
> It works here.  Up-to-date woody, i386 + kernel 2.2.17pre4, 
> /bin/sh -> /bin/bash.

hmm. so it's the sh -> ash. Hmm. So it's bashism or a bug in ash.

> Now, I'll go read some docs to figure out exactly what those exec lines do :-)

it probably runs the prog in a subshell? It's parsing fstab to see if it
should check the filesystem or not.

				Petr Cech
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