Re: [PATCH v3 02/22] scripts: Support symlinks in s6-rc-compile inputs

[Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>]

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Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com> writes:

> On 7/13/26 05:42, Alyssa Ross wrote:
>> Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Finish scripts can (and often will) be symbolic links to
>>> /usr/bin/cgroup-setup.
>> 
>> As we've previously discussed, using symlinks in s6-rc services is not a
>> good idea.  s6-rc-compile copies the contents of symlinks, meaning that
>> if you have a symlink to a big binary, you end up with lots of copies of
>> it in /run.  It's better to use a regular execline script that execs the
>> program you want to run.
>
> What about having it be a symlink to an execline script?  That's small
> enough to safely duplicate, and it keeps the code in one place in the
> repository.

What code?  It's just a single line script that runs another program
with what, one argument?  And it's not like fundamentally no other
service is ever going to want to do anything else in its finish script.
It makes more sense for them to not be shared, so that it's not
inconvenient to make service-specific finish script modifications.

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