Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Andrey Borzenkov <> | Subject | module-init-tools and chained aliases | Date | Sun, 15 Jun 2003 13:52:36 +0400 |
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Apparently modprobe from module-init-tools 0.9.11a does not support chained aliases like modutils did, i.e.
alias foo bar alias bar baz
will result in error doing "modprobe foo" instead of loading "baz".
This is a real problem when converting modules.devfs, because customary
alias /dev/tts* /dev/tts alias /dev/tts serial
simply does not work for accessing /dev/tts/*. modprobe.devfs as shipped with modue-init-tools has exactly the problem in parts.
It is possible to partially work around it by using
install foo /sbin/modprobe bar
consistently instead of alias but it means extra forks every time, besided it breaks parsing for many tools (initscripts or mkinitrd make heavy use of parsing sometimes, at least on Mandrake).
Is the behaviour intentional? Fixing it is just a one line patch and I fail to see why current state would be preferred.
regards
-andrey
--- modprobe.c.orig 2003-06-15 01:32:21.000000000 +0400 +++ modprobe.c 2003-06-15 13:46:25.000000000 +0400 @@ -1021,8 +1021,11 @@ static char *read_config(const char *fil
if (!wildcard || !realname) grammar(cmd, filename, linenum); - else if (fnmatch(wildcard,name,0) == 0) - result = NOFAIL(strdup(realname)); + else if (fnmatch(wildcard,name,0) == 0) { + if (result) + free(result); + name = result = NOFAIL(strdup(realname)); + } } else if (strcmp(cmd, "include") == 0) { char *newresult, *newfilename;
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