On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 21:22 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Thank you for the interesting feedback. But some of your comments > make me suspect you misunderstand what actually happened here when I > made the new sysvinit release. > > All of the patches now included in the new sysvinit tarball have been > included in Debian, SuSe and Fedora for several years already. So, > nothing really new here, just a new upstream release to provide an > updated synchronization point between the distributions. > Ah, I see! I thought you'd merged a whole bunch of SuSE and Fedora patches recently that changed some behaviours.
I roughly based Upstart's sysv tools off a 2007 version of sysvinit, so there may be a few differences: > Yes. This patch has been in Debian since 2006, fixing #58119. > > >> * Fix utmp/wtmp updating on 64-bit platforms. Patch by Bill > >> Nottingham and Fedora. > >> > > What was this patch? > > Included in Debian since version 2.86.ds1-40. See the SVN repository > for the details. > Looks like I found and fixed this one independently: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~scott/upstart/trunk/revision/268 > >> * Allow 'telinit u' in runlevels 0 and 6. Patch from Thomas Hood. > >> > > What runlevels are "telinit u" normally allowed in in sysvinit? > > It used to only allow runlevels S12345. Fixed in debian in version > 2.86.ds1-9 in 2006, fixing #345719. > I think I just allow it at any point; that being said, it does nothing right now ;-) > > I noticed a strange case with killall, it seems to cause the Upstart > > rc.conf job to get SIGSTOP/SIGCONT repeatedly? > > killall5 signals all processes with SIGSTOP before deciding what to > kill, to avoid new processes popping up while killall5 is running. > Interesting ... Upstart will send SIGCONT to any supervised process that raises SIGSTOP, so this is likely working against you here. I'm not entirely sure why I send SIGCONT tbh. > >> * Change reboot/halt to work properly when used as a login shell. > >> Patch by Dale R. Worley and Fedora. > >> > > What was this patch? > > See SVN. Trusted Fedora to know what they were doing, and applied the > patch without testing how things behave. > I should probably apply this same patch to initctl, reboot, etc. Scott -- Scott James Remnant [email protected]
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