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SubjectRe: initrd redesign (was Re: Partition nightmare Was: Migrating to larger numbers)
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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