> > > > It is utterly unreasonable for the system to try and do fsck's when the > > system is booted with 'linux single'. The whole point of a single user boot > > is that something is wrong that needs reasoned attention from a system > > adminitrator. A single-user boot should do absolutely *nothing* that isn't > > required to drop the system admin into a shell. > > > > This has been reported before as a bug. This time I just thought i'd > chime in and say "me too." >
I'll start to maintain the INIT package from the beginning of next year. It took some time because I wanted to upgrade my system to ELF first. In the new version there will be a flag that causes INIT to skip all scripts and throw you in a shell directly. (sulogin will also be included). Which brings up another question: in libc 5.2.18, struct utmp was changed. At least I think it was 5.2.18, so 5.2.17 should be OK. To maintain compatibility with a.out and programs compiled with libc < 5.2.18, I think I'll downgrade 1 patchlevel. I hope HJ Lu sees this is a mistake and backs it off in 5.2.20. Such a change should go into libc 5.3.... Does anybody know more about this? -- Miquel van | Cistron Internet Services -- Alphen aan den Rijn. Smoorenburg, | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cistron.nl/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +31-172-419445 (Voice) 430979 (Fax) 442580 (Data)
