Hiroshi Ito writes:

"kill -HUP 1" reloads inittab, and when I append one line to inittab
and send HUP signal two times, It will starts 2 process.

patch against current CVS is attached.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/init/init.c b/init/init.c
index 2278e521f..8a63ff350 100644
--- a/init/init.c
+++ b/init/init.c
@@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ static void cont_handler(int sig)
 
 static void new_init_action(int action, const char *command, const char *cons)
 {
-        struct init_action *new_action, *a;
+        struct init_action *new_action, *a, *last;
 
         if (*cons == '\0')
                 cons = console;
@@ -864,16 +864,17 @@ static void new_init_action(int action, const char *command, const char *cons)
         }
 
         /* Append to the end of the list */
-        for (a = init_action_list; a && a->next; a = a->next) {
+        for (a = last = init_action_list; a; a = a->next) {
                 /* don't enter action if it's already in the list */
                 if ((strcmp(a->command, command) == 0) &&
                     (strcmp(a->terminal, cons) ==0)) {
                         free(new_action);
                         return;
                 }
+                last = a;
         }
-        if (a) {
-                a->next = new_action;
+        if (last) {
+                last->next = new_action;
         } else {
                 init_action_list = new_action;
         }