Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:37:49 +0200 | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: initrd redesign (was Re: Partition nightmare Was: Migrating to larger numbers) |
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Alexander Viro wrote: > Yes. Unable to deal with the global root, but it's not hard to add. The > right solution being to add the full-fledged namespaces, though. Doable, > but will require some NFS cleanup beforehand.
What do you mean by "full-fledged namespaces" ? Isn't the device file sufficient ?
> It creates a pipe, writes signature there, forks, child marshalls the state > through the pipe, [...]
Cool, just like LIB$SPAWN on VAX/VMS ;-)
> parent does exec(),
What does it exec ? exec?p "init" ? execl "/sbin/init" ? Whatever "init=" said ?
Well, I suppose in most cases, the first thing that runs isn't init anyway, but some kind of shell, so this doesn't matter. But it's a neat feature.
- Werner
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