On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> The file is created to make sure programs and scripts starting very
> early in the boot can know if it is possible and safe to write to
> /lib/init/rw/.  Not much is using it yet, but I believe that area
> might be key to solving the problems associated with the event based
> kernel very early in the boot.

Err, how can it NOT be safe to write there?  And you get immediate feedback
if the system is completely and utterly broken and the write fails,
anyway...

What would be an example of expected use of that marker?  I don't get it,
either.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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