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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:55:04 +0100
From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>,
       Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>,
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Subject: Re: argv0 revisited...
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    Hi Jakob :))

> > 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 ?

    Doesn't worth it, just for reexec'ing init and be able to mangle
with argv[0], which isn't a good thing, anyway ;)

    Ra?l
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