rtems-kernel-init.c tries to re-make existing "/etc"

[Joel Sherrill]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 9:50 AM Peter Dufault <dufault at hda.com> wrote:

>
>
> > On Apr 18, 2024, at 10:34 AM, Kinsey Moore <kinsey.moore at oarcorp.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > A patch for EEXIST here should be fine. It would be nice if the caller
> were more resilient.
> >
>
> I also changed "default-network-init.h" to assert rtems_bsd_initialize()
> worked.
>
>   sc = rtems_bsd_initialize();
>   assert(sc == RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL);
>
> At least you get a panic message.  I'll submit a patch.
>

Why does /etc already exist? Is it really an error if it already exists?

If the startup code untar'ed some initial file system contents before
calling this, then /etc would almost certainly exist.

Unless I am missing something EEXIST should be acceptable. Other errors are
most likely really fatal.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mkdir.html

--joel

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