On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 05:30:31PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Johannes Truschnigg wrote: > > Package: sysvinit > > Version: 2.88dsf-13.1+squeeze1 > > Severity: minor > > Tags: patch > > > > > > I added a new entry to inittab on a busy host which did not seem to start > > upon > > invoking `telinit q`. Syslog received the following message: > > > > Nov 22 10:16:29 r7 init: /etc/inittab[93]: process field too long > > > > This limit (127 characters) is not documented in man 5 inittab, nor anywhere > > else I looked. In init's source file, there are error messages the > > explicitely > > state length limits for other fields in inittab (which a user is much less > > likely to overflow, I think), which seems kind of weird. > > Eh, should we also increase that limit to something larger [if it is > feasible to do so] ?
Looks like it's just the process field in struct _child_ (src/init.h); but there's also a static line buffer. We could potentially make this dynamically allocated with imalloc; or just make it longer and also increase the line buffer size accordingly. (It's kind of horrible that they hard coded the size when checking, rather than using sizeof()) Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
