Bug#270745: libc6-i686: does not re-exec init

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

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thanks

At Wed, 08 Sep 2004 22:14:00 -0300,
Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> However, libc6-i686 did not re-exec init, which is using libc6-i686:
> $ memstat -w | fgrep libc-
> [...]
>    1244k: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.3.2.so 1 [...]
> [...]
> 
> I had to do a "telinit u" by hand.
> 
> The logs show two attempts to re-exec init; one was probably from
> libc6.postinst, and the other was the one I did by hand. Before I
> re-execed it by hand, it was using the old copy of libc6 (obvious on
> memstat output since it's the one that has almost every pid in it).
> 
> I think libc6-i686 should repeat the daemon-restarting dance of
> libc6.postinst, to avoid problems with other daemons (this time it
> wasn't needed, since the upgrade was from -13 libc6 decided it only had
> to restart init)

init executes with the newer /lib/libc-2.3.2.so after running
libc6.postinst.  Could you tell me why we need to reexec init?  IIRC,
init does not get any bonus using /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.3.2.so.
If you don't provide us any valid evidences, I'll close it.

Regards,
-- gotom