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SubjectRe: devfs patch v21 available
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980331210654.1323B-100000@main.zombie.org>,
Sean M. Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org> wrote:
From past experience, I have learned you cannot cleanly shutdown or reboot
>the system if init is not running with a PID of 1. When reading this
>message on the list, I recalled seeing something about this in the
>sysvinit README.RIGHT.NOW file:

Ok, so I lied :). Init looks at both
(getpid() ==1) || (strcmp(name, "init.new") == 0)

Anyway. I do not think it is nessecary to discuss this any longer on
the linux-kernel list; if you need more info on init please take it
to private email.

Mike.
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Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time,
miquels@cistron.nl | eventually eliminating it.

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