[arch-projects] [initscripts] [PATCH] Fix: don't use install where target file can't/shouldn't be removed

[Kurt J. Bosch]

Seblu, 2011-06-27 00:28:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Kurt J. Bosch
> <kjb-temp-2009 at alpenjodel.de>  wrote:
>> ---
>>   functions  |    7 +++++++
>>   rc.sysinit |    4 ++--
>>   2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/functions b/functions
>> index 43414c0..9ad75a9 100644
>> --- a/functions
>> +++ b/functions
>> @@ -428,6 +428,13 @@ install_file() {
>>         install -T "$@"<(printf '%s' "$content") "$file"
>>   }
>>
>> +# install would fail because files can't be removed from /proc
>> +# moreover we don't want to remove nodes from /dev
>> +write_file() {
>> +       local file=$1 content=$2
>> +       printf '%s' "$content">| "$file"
>> +}
>> +
>>   bootlogd_stop() {
>>         [[ -f /run/bootlogd.pid ]] || return 0
>>         touch /var/log/boot
>> diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit
>> index dcc88f5..2c08f02 100755
>> --- a/rc.sysinit
>> +++ b/rc.sysinit
>> @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ status "Activating Swap" swapon -a
>>   RANDOM_SEED=/var/lib/misc/random-seed
>>   [[ -f $RANDOM_SEED ]]&&
>>         status "Initializing Random Seed" \
>> -               install_file /dev/urandom "$(<  "$RANDOM_SEED" )"
>> +               cp "$RANDOM_SEED" /dev/urandom
>>
>>   stat_busy "Removing Leftover Files"
>>         rm -rf /etc/{nologin,shutdownpid} /forcefsck /tmp/* /tmp/.*&>/dev/null
>> @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ stat_done
>>
>>   [[ $HOSTNAME ]]&&
>>         status "Setting Hostname: $HOSTNAME" \
>> -               install_file /proc/sys/kernel/hostname "$HOSTNAME"
>> +               write_file /proc/sys/kernel/hostname "$HOSTNAME"
>>
>
> Do you call a function to do the job of a redirection?
>
Yep. We need to do it _within_ status.

-- 
Kurt