Messages in this thread | | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: PATCH to support dotted base directory names | Date | 9 Jul 1999 15:06:52 +0200 |
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In article <cistron.19990709142018.I400@mencheca.ch.genedata.com>, >I don't see why we need this in the kernel. Your distribution can >(as you evidently know) pass `init=/.sbi/init' to the kernel, so why >do we need this?
Because init=/.sbi/init doesn't just start /.sbi/init as PID #1, it starts an _internal kernel init_ which keeps on respawning the program you pass to init= . That program doesn't have init-like properties (can be killed, is not PID #1).
>Is there actually a good reason we have /etc/init >and /bin/init in there still? Has any distribution in the last 5 >years not put init in /sbin?
The kernel should be fixed. There should be a shell= option which does what init= does now, and init= should just do what it implies ...
Mike. -- Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
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