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SubjectRe: Death of init (Was: Re: kill -9 <pid of X>)
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> hpa@transmeta.com said:
> > Actually, the death of init should either panic the kernel or reboot.
> >
>
> I'd rather it didn't. I've had minimal root filesystems with a shell
> script as init, which simply brought up the network drivers, enabled
> routing and exited.
>
> If the kernel rebooted after the script finished, it wouldn't be very useful.
>

So what does it do?

-hpa

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