[BusyBox] Can init reread inittab? Not really....? Ur...p.

Tom Oehser tom at toms.net
Tue Apr 23 14:41:03 UTC 2002


I see in the archives:

...
> But this way everything is restarted and re-run, rc.sysinit is re-executed
> and tries to re-setup the system. If I take out "::restart..." line, then it
> seems nothing happens (ie: I delete the tty4 line, init -q, kill the tty4
> getty, and it's restarted). I looked at "static void exec_signal(int sig)"
> and it seems it does something only if it has to "restart".
...

I guess this was deemed "not a bug"?  If I want it to behave more like
sysvinit maybe I'm on my own?  What I want is that -q or HUP will:

-Not restart
-Re-read the inittab
-Act on new entries
-Kill deleted entries
-Ignore unchanged entries

Which is something like what sysvinit does.

As it is, all you can do is completely restart everything, which in my case
would make an endless loop...

-Tom












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