Bug#423095: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#423095: sysvinit: Allow bootsplash packages to hook into fsck events

[Otavio Salvador]

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> writes:

> [David Härdeman]
>> the attached patch changes the sysvinit init.d script(s) to allow splash 
>> scripts to hook into the fsck stage so that special action can be taken 
>> (in the case of usplash, this would be to set a high timeout and to let 
>> the progressbar reflect that an unknown amount of time will be spent 
>> fscking, splashy would probably want something similar).
>
> This seem like a good idea to me, and I suspect we should move all the
> current usplash hooks into the /lib/init/splash-functions-base file if
> we go this way, to make it easier for splasy and others to hook into
> the boot system.

I like this idea too. This makes our life easier and all the
integration work much nicer :-D

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