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

[Roger Leigh]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 11:22:41AM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> 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?

BTW, all of your upstream changes are already in sysvinit.git
(http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/sysvinit;a=blob_plain;f=debian/patches/93_run_initctl.patch;hb=a0263c14e64f0bbab10f656284272a8c9066189b)

I would propose something like the following, based on your
patch, would complete the migration (attached).  Not yet tested.


Regards,
Roger

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