be sure remaining /etc files are at least available RO

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/move/move.pm b/move/move.pm
index 9b3cfb288..6ad098323 100644
--- a/move/move.pm
+++ b/move/move.pm
@@ -80,7 +80,15 @@ sub init {
     #- because programs most often won't try to create the missing subdir before trying
     #- to write a file, leading to obscure unexpected failures
     -d $_ or mkdir_p $_ foreach chomp_(cat_('/image/move/directories-to-create'));
-
+    
+    #- remaining non existent /etc files are symlinked from the RO volume,
+    #- better to have them RO than non existent.
+    #- PB: problems arise when programs try to open then in O_WRONLY
+    #- or O_RDWR -> in that case, they should be handled in the
+    #- OVERWRITE section of data/etcfiles)
+    foreach (chomp_(cat_('/image/move/all-etcfiles'))) {
+        -f or symlinkf_short("/image/$_", $_);
+    }
 
     #- free up stage1 memory
     fs::umount($_) foreach qw(/stage1/proc /stage1);