[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of rc-sysinit - savannah.gnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

Please do not mail me with HTML-only.

I think that you can resubmit your project, despite the fact that I
think you'd better try to include your work upstream (in Mandrake
IICR). 

Regards,


address@hidden a tapoté :

> Thank you for the information on trying to find the author of rc.sysinit.
> <br>
> However, I think you need to understand, I am asking for your help not 
> because I haven\'t looked, but because I have already looked in all the 
> standard places.
> <br>
> rc.sysinit is a bash script that resides in /etc/rc.d along w/ all the other 
> scripts that make up the package called initscripts.
> <br>
> However, there are many variants and flavors and initscripts tend to be 
> localized to a single distribution for the most part.
> <br>
> Mandrake has one set, RedHat has another, and so on.
> <br>
> rc.sysinit is not standardized across distributions except in HOW it does 
> things. Each distro is free to change what it would like.
> <br>
> My patch to rc.sysinit clearly shows how that needs to be changed to handle 
> fsck correctly and modularly.
> <br>
> You could easily pull out the parts I have and put it into the correct distro.
> <br>
> Part of what I was hoping to do w/ the project is to collect all the variants 
> and maintain them as a single entity so that everyone could benefit.
> <br>
> But the problem remains, I still cannot find the single source of truth for 
> rc.sysinit.
> <br>
> It\'s not even strictly POSIX. It\'s just a script for initilization that 
> everyone seems to shared variants of and they all seem to have the same 
> problem.
> <br>
> Any thoughts????
> <br>
> Shamim

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