upstart script can not be too long when root is read only?

[Scott James Remnant]

On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 23:21 +0100, paul wrote:

> Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 21:02 +0100, paul wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> While trying to write my own upstart scripts from scratch I ran in the
> >> issue that my first script that runs failed with this error:
> >>
> >> /bin/sh: /dev/fd/7: No such file or directory
> >>
> >>     
> > This usually means you're missing the /dev/fd -> /proc/self/fd symlink.
> >
> Yes, it is missing because /proc is not mounted yet.
> Thus the 1st script that mounts /proc can not be longer than 1024 bytes.
> 
Yeah, I always figured that would be an issue -- which is why it's not
on by default ... in Ubuntu we cheat by mounting it in the initramfs :)

Scott
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