[PATCH] ash: allow a profile script to be embedded in the binary

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 4:04 PM Ron Yorston <rmy at pobox.com> wrote:
> If the file embed/.profile exists at build time it is placed at the
> start of the block of compressed scripts.  Its name isn't included
> in the list of scripts so it can't be run directly by the user.
> Instead it is executed when a login shell is started, before
> /etc/profile.

I would like to see people requesting because they really need it.
Not "just because we can and it's cool". What is the real-world
essential benefit?

Else, what should we allow to be incorporated next? "/etc/profile"?
"/etc/shells"? "/etc/sysctl.conf"? If not, why not?