[Jesse Smith] > Today I pushed new code to the git "2.91" branch which makes init (and > its associated tools) write the current runlevel to a log file > (/var/run/runlevel). Having this information here, as well as in utmp, > lets us check/confirm the current runlevel on systems that do not > support utmp. This should come in handy on platforms like FreeBSD and > Linux distros that use the musl C library.
Personally, I believe it to be a really bad idea to duplicate the runlevel information in several locations, and would have instead choosen to simply state that systems without utmp(x) suppport are broken and need to get utmp support before they will work properly with sysvinit. utmpx is part of POSIX. How do you handle systems where /var/run/utmp and /var/run/runlevel differ? Who to believe? Btw, isn't /run/ the proposed location these days? Why /var/run/? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
