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SysVinit 3.14 Released: Overcomes Three Decade Limitation Of Inittab Line Length
For those continuing to make use of SysVinit as the aging init system that in the Linux world has been largely replaced by systemd, SysVinit 3.14 is out today and overcomes a long-standing limitation around the length of lines within the inittab files.
The biggest change in SysVinit 3.14 is overcoming the 127 character per line limit of inittab files that has been there for roughly the past three decades. I think most people were putting long lines and complex logic in their shell scripts anyway, but this is just additional protection against potential problems." The other SysVinit 3.14 changes are small with some man page updates and adding back the "DESTDIR" variable support in its Makefile.
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