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From: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>
To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
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Subject: Re: argv0 revisited...
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 07:46:38PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <20030115191942.GD47@DervishD>,
> DervishD  <raul@pleyades.net> wrote:
> >> > of init. Remember, is not any program, is an init. Should be a more
> >> > clean way, I suppose :??
> >> I don't think is that big a deal ... if you startup the system normally,
> >> sooner or later, /proc is going to be mounted. A [quickie] variation is:
> >
> >    Yes, I know, and that's one option, but I would like to avoid the
> >mounting. Not a big deal, anyway, as you say. The only thing is that
> >it won't work in kernels without proc enabled (yes, there are people
> >without 'proc', size issues, I suppose, etc...).
> 
> I assume that init is passed on the kernel command line like
> init=/what/ever, right ?
> 
> Why not make that INIT=/what/ever, then make this /sbin/init:

Why not make a kernel patch that sets the INIT environment variable for
the init process ?

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