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Re: initramfs-tools 0.98



On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 19:17:17 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 16:42 +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> > It contains several worthwile fixes for Squeeze and
> > most importantly full fills the new initramfs policy.
> > please unblock.
> 
> A quick question on the diff:
> 
> +# Common case: /sbin/init is present
> +if [ ! -x "${rootmnt}/sbin/init" ]; then
> +       # ... if it's not available search for valid init
> +       if [ -z "${init}" ] ; then
> +               for inittest in /sbin/init /etc/init /bin/init /bin/sh; do
> +                       if validate_init "${inittest}"; then
> +                               init="$inittest"
> +                               break
> +                       fi
> +               done
> +       fi
> +
> +       # No init on rootmount
> +       if ! validate_init "${init}" ; then
> +               panic "No init found. Try passing init= bootarg."
> +       fi
>  fi
> 
> So far as I can see, if /sbin/init is present and executable, but $init
> is set to something else, then the init which will be executed is not
> checked via validate_init().  If so then should the "no init on
> rootmount" block be moved outside of the if block?
> 
There's this just above, though:

+# Check init bootarg
+if [ -n "${init}" ]; then
+       if ! validate_init "$init"; then
+               echo "Target filesystem doesn't have requested ${init}."
+               init=
+       fi
 fi

Cheers,
Julien

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