[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#746442: Please make /etc/rc.local non-executable by default

[Josh Triplett]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-53
Severity: normal

The default /etc/rc.local says:

# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

However, the file has the executable bit set by default, making it do
nothing less efficiently.  Since the file already includes instructions
to enable it by making it executable, please consider making it
non-executable by default, so that the init script and systemd service
can efficiently skip it without invoking a shell.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils       8.21-1.2
ii  debianutils     4.4
ii  libc6           2.18-5
ii  lsb-base        4.1+Debian12
ii  mount           2.20.1-5.7
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-53
ii  sysvinit-utils  2.88dsf-53

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs  1.42.9-3
ii  psmisc     22.21-2

initscripts suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/tmpfs changed [not included]

-- no debconf information