[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#403863: Bug#403863: chkrootkit and false positive dot-files

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]
> Err, how can it NOT be safe to write there?

If something try to write there before /etc/rcS.d/S02mountkernfs.sh
has executed, it will not be possible to write to /lib/init/rw/.

> What would be an example of expected use of that marker?  I don't
> get it, either.

Here is an example:

  if [ -f /lib/init/rw/.ramfs ] ; 
     do_stuff_needing_initrw
  else
     echo "Unable to do stuff, because /lib/init/rw/ is not yet writable"
  fi

Kernel event handlers called from udev (when udev is started in the
initrd) could find it useful to know if /lib/init/rw/ is writable or
not. :)

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen