[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#693960: Bug#693960: sysvinit: Undocumented, obscure limit for "process" field in inittab entries

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Johannes Truschnigg wrote:
> Package: sysvinit
> Version: 2.88dsf-13.1+squeeze1
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
> 
> 
> I added a new entry to inittab on a busy host which did not seem to start upon
> invoking `telinit q`. Syslog received the following message:
> 
> Nov 22 10:16:29 r7 init: /etc/inittab[93]: process field too long
> 
> This limit (127 characters) is not documented in man 5 inittab, nor anywhere
> else I looked. In init's source file, there are error messages the explicitely
> state length limits for other fields in inittab (which a user is much less
> likely to overflow, I think), which seems kind of weird.

Eh, should we also increase that limit to something larger [if it is
feasible to do so] ?

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