[PATCH] init: allow early inittab reload

Vladimir Dronnikov dronnikov at gmail.com
Mon Nov 9 06:17:43 UTC 2009


>
> In more detail, the shell script simply extends the inittab with a
> respawn getty login line for the recently added serial device. The
> hotplug event can happen at any time basically, but on my system it
> usually happens sometime during the SYSINIT phase. Today the inittab
> is never reloaded and that's the issue that the patch was trying to
> resolve.
>
> Ideally I'd like the rest of the system to stay the same during the
> hotplugging, ie no processes killed.
>
> Any recommendations?
>

Move to runit: http://busybox.net/~vda/init_vs_runsv.html
Denys has started to share his runit scripts in ./examples/var_service

Regards,
--
Vladimir


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