[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] /run transition

[Roger Leigh]

On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:16:51AM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> 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?

I hadn't pinned down the cause of the issue because I /was/ seeing
the /etc/network/run directory pointed to by the symlink created
successfully, but it may have still been causing problems--I
ultimately just symlinked it to /run/network.

I'm not totally familiar with the logic of myreadlink, but if it's
causing it to run the top level while loop again to repeat the
readlink, which is what it appears to be doing, then I think that's
fine.  I can test it later on today.

Niall, I would suggest filing a bug report against ifupdown with the
patch; if it's a duplicate, it's not a big deal.  I would also
recommend sending it to "Andrew O. Shadoura <bugzilla at tut.by>", who
is working on an updated version of ifupdown (which will use /run
directly).


Regards,
Roger

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