Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:37:43 -0500
From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
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Subject: Re: Inquiry: Should we remove "isolcpus= kernel boot option? (may
 have realtime uses)
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> btw Are you guys using some kind of castrated, statically linked shell to run
> that script ?

It (that init= program) is not a script.  It is its own
castrated, statically linked special purpose binary.
Once it has done its duty setting up cpusets, it then
exec's the normal init, confined to the cpuset configured
for it.

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