Bug#826214: Bug#913247: Please provide a C implementation of /lib/init/init-d-script

[Michael Biebl]

Am 01.12.18 um 23:04 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 01.12.18 um 23:00 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>> I'm still convinced, that fixing this properly in init-d-script would be
>> the much better solution. If init-d-script was implemented in C, it
>> could be used as a shebang/interpreter on non-Linux and it would be
>> possible to have $0 be set properly. Which also means, no changes to
>> 40-systemd would be necessary.
>>
>> Now we have the unfortunate situation, that implementation details like
>> __init_d_script_name leak into 40-systemd (or the init-d-script name in
>> your second commit), and I do not like that at all.
>>
>> Also, keep in mind, that 40-systemd might not be the only script which
>> relies on $0 being set properly. E.g. pidofproc in
>> /lib/lsb/init-functions uses $0. So I can only hope, that no init script
>> based on init-d-script ever uses pidofproc or $0 directly.
> 
> Btw, so far no (convincing) reason was presented why this is not fixed
> in init-d-script directly.
> 
> Would be interested to know, why the sysvinit maintainers came to this
> conclusion.
> 

I'd also be interested to know why

#!/usr/bin/env /lib/init/init-d-script
is preferred over
#!/bin/sh /lib/init/init-d-script
given that init-d-script is *no* C implementation.

Regards,
Michael

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