Re: [sysvinit-devel] Reading runlevel without utmp

[Matias Fonzo]

On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 20:31:41 -0300
Matias Fonzo <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 20:39:10 -0300
> Jesse Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Today I pushed new code to the git "2.91" branch which makes init
> > (and its associated tools) write the current runlevel to a log file
> > (/var/run/runlevel). Having this information here, as well as in
> > utmp, lets us check/confirm the current runlevel on systems that do
> > not support utmp. This should come in handy on platforms like
> > FreeBSD and Linux distros that use the musl C library.  
> 
> Ah, very nice. I have been waiting this change, I will download the
> tarball from git for testing, tomorrow.


At a first booting/rebooting, it worked.  :-)

Only one thing, I've noted that the version string was missing when
init prints the bootmsg "INIT: ... version booting".