On Wed 2020-12-23 @ 10:06:05 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Wed, 2020-12-23 at 16:50 -0500, Trevor Woerner wrote: > > On Wed 2020-12-23 @ 06:00:21 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > Personally, I don't really like the idea of having a top level > > > directory called .psplash, > > > > Neither do I, which is why I also added the code to remove the > > directory once > > the psplash program is done running. Whenever psplash is run the > > directory is > > created just before it starts and removed when psplash is done. > > > > > is there a reason it doesn't work in /mnt? > > > > This all works fine (without any changes) on the qemuX machines, but > > on a real device (e.g. rpi) when the image is booted for the first > > time everything is mounted, initially, RO, when using sysvinit. At > > the end of the first boot, and for every subsequent boot, the > > filesystem is R/W, so everything works on > > subsequent boots. > > Right, but why can't psplash create /mnt/.psplash? Why do we need / and > not /mnt ?
Ah okay. Let me play with it some more. The only point of /mnt/.psplash (or /.psplash) is to have a directory in which a tmpfs can be mounted in which the fifo is created. [this is the current behaviour] It all sounds rather convoluted. I'll look for something better.
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