On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:26:24AM -0500, Post, Mark K wrote: > I don't know why, but I was aware that only _certain_ variables would get > set. That's why I wound up modifying the Red Hat installer to parse > /proc/cmdline instead, for the Slack/390 installer. That works every time, > and I got tired of trying to figure out what variables would get picked up > and which ones wouldn't. ;)
The kernel removes all vars it knows about and passes on the remaining ones into env. For sure something changing over time... greetings, Florian La Roche ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
