Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Death of init != death of kernel? | | Date | Sun, 23 Aug 1998 14:14:59 +0100 | | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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The behaviour of the kernel upon the death of init appears to have changed recently. I recall a discussion about it, but wasn't aware that it had already happened.
What was the reason for it?
It breaks the established behavioural pattern of the kernel. Specifically, it means that Alt-SysRq-L-S-U-B only ever gets as far as the Alt-SysRq-L before the kernel hangs, leaving the filesystems mounted and unsyncable.
Also, it means that if you boot with init=/bin/bash, then open more bashes on new VCs, the machine falls over when you exit the first one.
Furthermore, it breaks machines that I've set up where /sbin/init is a script along the lines of...
#!/bin/sh /sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 /sbin/ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 /sbin/sysctl-ipforward on
When the script finishes, these machines just hang, rather than continuing to route the packets that they're supposed to.
Unless there's a particularly good reason for the change, I'd like to revert to the established behaviour.
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