Messages in this thread | | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.4 and 2.5: remove Alt-Sysrq-L | Date | Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:46:42 +0000 |
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rmk@arm.linux.org.uk said: > I don't know of any Linux kernel that has ever been able to cope with > PID1 dying. I certainly remember facing the PID1 dying causing lockup > as far back as 1.3 kernels, and I even tried to fix it back then. The > argument put forward for not fixing it is that PID1 should not exit. > Period.
I distinctly recall it working perfectly OK in around 2.1.50. I had boxen where /sbin/init was a shell script which would bring up the interfaces, enable routing, and exit.
-- dwmw2
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