On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 09:56:17PM +0100, Eckehard Berns wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 04:24:03PM +0000, sin wrote: > > Well, I completely removed the FIFO code :) > > That simplifies things :) > > I tested v0.3 and besides some glitches due to my system everything > worked fine. I'm using fgetty (yeah, freeing a couple more kb might > not be worth using it, but I tried it some time ago and kept it) and > it complains about file descriptor 3 when I try to log in. Aparently > (haven't checked the fgetty code) it uses file descriptor 3 for internal > communication of some sort and that would be sinit's sigfd. I added > a line to spawn() to close sigfd in the first child (if sigfd >= 0) > and I could log in again.
Aha, I see. I will try testing with fgetty as well. > Speaking of children, I think you could drop the double fork in spawn > now, since pid 1 already waits for children. Makes sense. > And since sinit uses Linux specific code anyway you might consider > calling reboot(0) to tell the kernel to send SIGINT to pid 1 on > ctrl-alt-del. I implemented ctrlaltdel(8) in ubase and I call it in my init scripts to set the ctrl-alt-del behaviour.
