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@@ -28,12 +28,6 @@ running, and shutdown of your system.</para>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Sysvinit</title>
-<para>Sysvinit &sysvinit-version; contains a <quote>buffer overflow</quote> bug.
-Under some conditions, it clobbers the
-values of environment variables. Fix that:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../sysvinit-&sysvinit-version;-proclen-1.patch</userinput></screen>
-
<para>When run-levels are changed (for example, when halting the system),
<command>init</command> sends termination signals to those processes that
<command>init</command> itself started and that shouldn't be running in the new
@@ -177,6 +171,14 @@ messages to the current user's terminal.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+<varlistentry id="mountpoint">
+<term><command>mountpoint</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit mountpoint"><primary sortas="b-mountpoint">mountpoint</primary></indexterm>
+<para>checks if the directory is a mountpoint.</para>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry id="pidof">
<term><command>pidof</command></term>
<listitem>