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bug #35859: Small letter 's' in inittab doesn't work

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Submitted:  Thu 15 Mar 2012 09:17:32 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Invalid
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Fri 16 Mar 2012 03:50:49 PM UTC, comment #1: 

The `S' in inittab is special, with this you may override the
intrinisic emergency shell of SysVinit.  To use an other program
as /sbin/sulogin, nothing more and nothing less (IMHO).

You should not use those special ID for others like once entries.

Dr. Werner Fink <wfink>
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Thu 15 Mar 2012 09:17:32 PM UTC, original submission:  

init version: 2.88dsf

For example:

----- /etc/initscript -----
  echo initscript: $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6
  eval exec "$4"
----------

----- /etc/inittab -----
...
abc:3s4:once:/bin/echo abc
def:3S4:once:/bin/echo def
----------

Then execute command lines:
"init 5"
"init 4"

It prints:
initscript: abc 3s4 once /bin/echo abc
small letter 's' ^

In single-user level line "abc" doesn't work. Is it correct? Maybe only "S" letter is allowed in runlevels field?

I discovered something strange in read_inittab function:

> for(f = 0; f < (int)sizeof(rlevel) - 1 && rlevel[f]; f++) {
> ch->rlevel[f] = rlevel[f];
> if (ch->rlevel[f] == 's') ch->rlevel[f] = 'S';
> }

------> strncpy(ch->rlevel, rlevel, sizeof(ch->rlevel) - 1);

Note: start_if_needed is case sensitive.

> void start_if_needed(void)
> ...
> if (strchr(ch->rlevel, runlevel) ||
> ...


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