On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:21:28PM +0100, Stefan Gybas wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:36:37PM +0100, Stefan Gybas wrote: > > > I'll make this change in my NMU which fixes the s390 problems. > > Testing with current CVS boot-floppies on s390 shows that this section > does not work. It causes dbootstrap to hang after calling debootstrap > (maybe because the cat process isn't properly killed?) and all packages > have been set up. The last message is "I: debootstrap: Successfully > completed" from exec_debootstrap() in extract_base.c - the rest is not > executed: > > mkfifo $TARGET/dev/initctl > cat <$TARGET/dev/initctl >/dev/null & > CAT_PID=$! > on_exit "kill $CAT_PID >/dev/null 2>&1" > > I'd like to disable this section for the boot-floppies, it's not > necessary there: > > if [ -n "$USE_BOOTFLOPPIES_INTERACTION" ]; then > mknod -m 600 $TARGET/dev/initctl p > cat <$TARGET/dev/initctl >/dev/null & > CAT_PID=$! > on_exit "kill $CAT_PID >/dev/null 2>&1" > fi > > Any objections? Does the old section work on other architectures?
I object. We should fix, rather than disable, it. Could you
please try the following code instead?
mknod $TARGET/dev/initctl
tail -f <$TARGET/dev/initctl >/dev/null &
TAIL_PID=$!
on_exit "kill $TAIL_PID"
Matt
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