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Moved the named communication pipe from /dev/initctl to /run/initctl. This

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patch was supplied by Robert Millan from Debian. FreeBSD apparently does not
like named piped in /dev, so we move it to /run for better cross-platform
compatibility.
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Jesse Smith
2018-02-20 19:29:08 -04:00
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@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ You might want to create a file called "/etc/shutdown.allow". Read the
manual page on shutdown to find out more about this.
Running from a read-only file system (CDROM?):
o All communication to init goes through the FIFO /dev/initctl.
o All communication to init goes through the FIFO /run/initctl.
There should be no problem using a read-only root file system
IF you use a Linux kernel > 1.3.66. Older kernels don't allow
writing to a FIFO on a read-only file system.