[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] /run transition

[Kel Modderman]

Hi Niall and Roger,

On Sun, 1 May 2011 05:39:55 AM Niall Walsh wrote:
> Sorry but I'm not subscribed so I can't reply to the relevant mail, but
> this mail is about the ifupdown initscript issue(s) with /run.
> 
> As best I can tell, the problem(s) with the ifupdown script boil down to
> the fact that it's myreadlink() cannot handle nested symlinks.   However
> the attached simple patch seems to fix this by having myreadlink restart
> it's main loop again if it discovers such a nested symlink.
> 
> I decided not to post it to either of the possibly relevant existing bugs
> in the BTS for now (623076 & 623523) as the descriptions of both make me
> wonder if they refer to other problems.
> 
> I hope this helps.

It makes sense to me, Roger (may already know about this issue) what do you 
make of it?

Thanks, Kel.