Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750751AbVJWUkX (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:40:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750763AbVJWUkW (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:40:22 -0400 Received: from mta10.adelphia.net ([68.168.78.202]:7311 "EHLO mta10.adelphia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750751AbVJWUkV (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:40:21 -0400 Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:40:20 -0700 From: Matt Zimmerman To: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Keep initrd tasks running? Message-ID: <20051023204020.GN10501@alcor.net> Mail-Followup-To: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <4355494C.5090707@comcast.net> <1129663759.18784.98.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4355BEF4.8000800@cfl.rr.com> <4355C9F3.40004@comcast.net> <435695EE.4090704@cfl.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <435695EE.4090704@cfl.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 558 Lines: 14 On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 02:52:30PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: > thought that with initramfs, init actually exited and the kernel unmounted > the initramfs, and mounted the real root and ran the real init. This is not what happens; look at run-init in klibc if you want to understand how it does work. -- - mdz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/