Some months ago I finally setup a read-only-by-default root filesystem. Now bootmisc always warns when it tries to remove RC_LIBEXECDIR/console/* files. After grepping RC_LIBEXECDIR in /etc/init.d/* (and working around the lack of documentation for RC_LIBEXECDIR and checkpath, bugs 489344 and 489356), it seems that most initscripts are either referencing it for a source (read not write) or if they're writing to it, the write is guarded by a checkpath -W conditional. Of the scripts I have installed, only bootmisc appears to attempt a write to $RC_LIBEXECDIR unguarded by a writable check such as checkpath -W: bootmisc line 151: rm -rf "$RC_LIBEXECDIR"/console/* Thanks for your work on openrc. =:^) Duncan
Apology if this is a nuisance and I don't normally do this but bump? Not even a comment since originally filed over two months ago? That is uncharacteristic for my openrc bugs (normally at least a comment, thanks) and the two openrc documentation bugs (#489344 and #489356) I opened the same day were quickly commented and one already fixed, so I'm wondering if this one really did just fall thru the cracks, in which case a bump may be warranted. Consolefont, keymaps and termencoding, which write $RC_LIBEXECDIR/console/* in the first place, already use a checkpath -W "$RC_LIBEXECDIR" conditional, and bootmisc already uses a checkpath -W conditional for other things, but not for its attempt to remove the $RC_LIBEXECDIR/console/* files written by the scripts above that already do the check, so I thought adding the check here would be a a trivial no-brainer, but two and a half months without even a comment? /Did/ it fall thru the cracks?
Duncan, thanks for pinging this bug. No, this hasn't fallen through the cracks, I just haven't had anything to say about it. Your fix is probably what I'll implement. The best answer I can give you is it will get fixed when I get to it. Thanks, William
This is fixed in commit 561b53e and will be included in OpenRC-0.13.
