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SubjectRe: e2fsck...
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 01:41:12PM +0100, ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> The problem is that current kernels start init, be it /{sbin,bin,etc}/init
> or whatever was passed as init= argument as PID 1. But PID 1 has several
> special properties like the priviledge of ignoring any signal it wants to
> ignore or adopting any orphaned process. One of the nervragging funnies
> with that is that that bash will ignore signals like sent from <CTRL>-C.

Oh, so _that_'s why fastboot bash can't be Ctrl-C'd. Grr, always found
that annoying.

These days, wouldn't it make more sense for init's properties to be set
using a capability instead of based on PID 1?

-- Jamie

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