Messages in this thread | | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: devfs patch v21 available | Date | 1 Apr 1998 18:11:14 +0200 |
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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. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, miquels@cistron.nl | eventually eliminating it.
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