[OE-core] [PATCH V2 4/5] populate-volatile.sh: improve the handling of link config items

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

On 20 February 2013 08:16, ChenQi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com> wrote:
> On 02/20/2013 03:10 PM, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
>>
>> On 20 February 2013 06:55:33 <Qi.Chen at windriver.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>
>>>
>>> Previously, if there's a link config item in the config file like
>>>
>>>         l root root 1777 /tmp /var/tmp
>>>
>>> and /tmp has existed, the symlink will not be created correctly.
>>>
>>> Another example is the /run directory. If /run directory has been
>>> created by some recipe or script before populate-volatile.sh runs,
>>> the symlink of /run to /var/run will not be created correctly.
>>>
>>> This patch ensures that the system creates symlinks exactly as the
>>> config file tells it.
>>
>>
>> This one also has bugs in background handling, it seems.
>
>
> What's the bug?

-                               link_file "${TSOURCE}" "${TNAME}" &
-                       }
+                       [ "${VERBOSE}" != "no" ] && echo "Creating
link -${TNAME}- pointing to -${TSOURCE}-."
+                       link_file "${TSOURCE}" "${TNAME}"

missing '&' after the link_file.
>
>
>> Can't you massage stderr redirection when setting EXIT instead?
>
>
> Could you please be more specific?
I meant EXEC.
Can't you put the > /dev/null 2>&1 into the relevant parts of _all_
the EXEC instead, in the whole series?


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