On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 13:45 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Michael Cashwell wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 11:48 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Michael Cashwell wrote: > > > > I am left wondering if there isn't some way to get init to actually > > > > reexec itself without patching it. It seems that the inittab restart > > > > would do that if I could get init to exit. But given my inittab success > > > > I have back the main functionality I needed so further exploration will > > > > have to wait. > > > > > > might be something to look into, but personally i just dont think this > > > has relevance in any sort of actual deployed production system > > > > Quite so. I think it only matters when the kernel can't open the > > console. > > which is really only an issue for development right ? the proper production > image will have /dev/console in place already ...
Hmm. Yes, that's a fair point too. Production devices will boot only from FLASH and as noted there are ways to create the special file in such file systems. I hadn't done so in the past because under 2.4 with devfs it wasn't needed. But I will address that now. -Mike _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox