[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#638019: /run/initctl

[Roger Leigh]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 03:25:53PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> I didn't notice this was actually a Release Goal [1].  Tagging appropiately.
> 
> I should note that the patch I sent has an unwanted side-effect:
> unability to send messages to init until after first reboot, which
> means first reboot can't be done cleanly.
> 
> Maybe clients can be modified to attempt old path first then try with
> /run/initctl (or vice-versa), or update scripts could play some kind
> of symlink trick.  I haven't had time to resolve this however.

How about on upgrade we symlink /run/initctl → /dev/initctl if
/run/initctl does not exist?
Programs can therefore be switched to using /run/initctl immediately.
On reboot, we can then just create /run/initctl and everything
should just work.

Does this sound OK, or have I missed something unobvious?


Regards,
Roger

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