Hello Russ, Russ Allbery hat am Mon 02. Feb, 20:36 (-0800) geschrieben: > Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de> writes: > > > It is the opinion of myself and Petter Reinholdtsen, maintainers of the > > sysvinit package, that the last sentence of §9.3.1 of policy is no > > longer relevant and should be removed: > > > > """Also, if the script name ends in .sh, the script will be sourced in > > runlevel S rather than being run in a forked subprocess, but will be > > explicitly run by sh in all other runlevels.""" > > > > The reasons for which it should be removed are: > > > > * /etc/init.d/rc has not supported this for an extremely long time, probably > > never, because the system would be unbootable due to .sh scripts calling > > 'exit' [0, 1]. > > Given this, I definitely agree. There's no point in having a statement > like this in Policy when our core packages don't implement it and no one > has apparently cared. I agree with you and second the proposal. As much as I like the idea to run scripts in the context of the rc process, I see no much value for packages and I as the administrator of a system can modify the rc script. I follow you that such a requirement generates more problems than it solves. Bye, Jörg. -- Prof. in der Mathematikvorlesung zu einem vergessenen φ in der Gleichung: „Klein‐φ macht auch Mist.“
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