[PATCH] Bug 815 [was: [PATCH] Bug 836]

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 13 June 2006 7:31 pm, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Sunday 11 June 2006 1:33 pm, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > I made further tests as to why this should/shouldn't work. So my setup
> > was pretty simple: have init=/bin/ash and call modprobe. That fails,
> > because, by default, ash does not export PATH (wether that is sane or not
> > I don't bother, presonnaly think it _is_). So modprobe has no PATH in its
> > env, and thus can not call insmod (or rmmod, or whatever, if that
> > matters). Explictly exporting PATH before calling modprobe solves the
> > problem.
>
> Sounds like modprobe needs to grow the option to be able to trigger the
> builtin insmod/rmmod utilities, which means I need to generalize the
> standalone shell code and put it in libbb.  (Perhaps I should probably put
> it in bb_spawn()?  Hmmm...)
>
> Off to go poke at that...
>
> Rob

Try svn 15380.  Maybe it fixed it, maybe it broke it worse...

Rob
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