[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] "telinit -e" can result in unmodifiable vars?

Thomas Hood jdthood at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jan 4 11:47:13 UTC 2006


I'd like to take up this issue separately:

Dana How wrote:
> (1) "telinit -e var=" causes var to get stuck permanently in the unset state.
> I don't like this; seems too special-case and limited-use.


I think that this should be considered a bug.  However, when I read init.c I
expect "telinit -e var=" to set var to the null string.

Do you observe var getting stuck in the unset state in practice?  If so, can
you explain why this happens?
-- 
Thomas



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