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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/init Makefile src/libexec/rtld-elf Makefile
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On Tue, 29 May 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:18:14PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 May 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > 
> > > ru          2001/05/28 09:58:36 PDT
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     sbin/init            Makefile 
> > >     libexec/rtld-elf     Makefile 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Use new backup feature of install(1).
> > >   
> > >   Revision  Changes    Path
> > >   1.26      +2 -8      src/sbin/init/Makefile
> > >   1.15      +2 -15     src/libexec/rtld-elf/Makefile
> > 
> > Do we really want these backups?  Note that the backup for init never
> > actually worked in any committed version, because the existence test
> > was done before bsd.prog.mk is included, so some of the variables in
> > it were not set.
> > 
> Why not?  We do have init.bak listed in init_main.c:init_path[].

That's almost a reason :-).  If our "secure" (schg'ed) init somehow doesn't
work, then we fall back to insecure ones.  But this is really another bug.

> And yes, I have noticed that the backups for init(8) did not work because
> make(1) resolves exists() the first time it parses it, and BINDIR is only
> defined after bsd.prog.mk is included.

This means that no one except the PR submitter has every used it.

Bruce


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