Re: [gentoo-user] /sbin/runscript - what does it do?

2003-09-29 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 30. September 2003 02:49 schrieb ext Ryan: > Where can one find the source for this program? # epm -qf /sbin/runscript baselayout-1.8.6.10-r1 Not 100% shure (so please correct me), but AFAIK you can't put a shell script as interpreter into the first line of another (#!/sbin/runscri

[gentoo-user] /sbin/runscript - what does it do?

2003-09-29 Thread Ryan
I was looking over how the Gentoo init system works and was wondering what the purpose of /sbin/runscript is? It's an executable referenced from the runscripts, but it seems that most of the legwork is in /sbin/runscript.sh. What, then, is the purpose of this executable? Does it just pass control o