Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Rick Hohensee <> | Subject | PATCH to support dotted base directory names | Date | Fri, 9 Jul 1999 05:56:50 -0400 (EDT) |
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This is against 2.3.10, although I don't think anything here has changed in quite some time.
I've been using a non-standard filename hierarchy for some few weeks now. It's been less trouble than I expected. This is an easy win. I urge you to take it. The fact that e.g. /bin/ is the same number of bytes as /.bi/ means that a simple ed script can convert a whole box to this system with little bloodshed.
This is my first use of diff -u. I edited one line in the patch (a comment) after the fact. The trailing } looks funny, but seems to be OK.
Rick Hohensee
--- linux/init/main.c Tue Jul 6 02:52:52 1999 +++ changes/init/main.c Fri Jul 9 04:07:41 1999 @@ -1379,12 +1379,13 @@
(void) dup(0); (void) dup(0); - + /* - * We try each of these until one succeeds. + * We try starting a commandline arg, init, or then a shell. + * /.sbi/init and /.bi/bash are for symlinks to init or a shell + * in unix traditional dirnames, user-friendlified dirnames, + * and/or non-English dirnames. * - * The Bourne shell can be used instead of init if we are - * trying to recover a really broken machine. */
if (execute_command) @@ -1393,5 +1394,8 @@ execve("/etc/init",argv_init,envp_init); execve("/bin/init",argv_init,envp_init); execve("/bin/sh",argv_init,envp_init); - panic("No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel."); + execve("/.sbi/init",argv_init,envp_init); + execve("/.bi/bash",argv_init,envp_init); + panic("No init or shell found. Try passing init=</path/to/command>" + " to the kernel with your bootloader."); }
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