Wow, what chatter. It is obvious that you have not read the source to our init.c, nor looked at the commit logs.
I don't understand society is producing a generation of people incapable of self-help. Probably something in the water. > === On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Ben Dibell > === wrote: > ===> Hi, I've tried other resources, even reading the source for init, but I > ===> can't seem to locate the magic that makes /sbin/init the approved init. > ===> I'm porting my init system Epoch to BSD for personal reasons, and I'd > ===> like > ===> it to work under OpenBSD, which I've been enjoying as of late. I come > ===> from > ===> the linux world where init=/bin/sh is perfectly valid, > === > === Hmm, I haven't tried, but /bin/sh should work. > === > === > ===> so some aspects are > ===> probably simpler in Linux. I am hoping there is a concise and clean > ===> explanation as to how to write/port an init system to BSD. Is it signal > ===> trickery? A checksum burned into the kernel? I'm lost. I'm given "init > ===> has > ===> died, signal 0 exit 0" or something nearly identical to this. > === > === This means the original thread of process 1 exited. Are you by chance > === trying to write a threaded init, because there are a number of places > === where the kernel currently assumes pid 1 is not a threaded process. > === > === > === Philip Guenther > === > > Thanks, hmm, yeah no, /bin/sh didn't work. Epoch is single threaded and is > mature and stable on Linux at 1.0.1. I tried a statically linked build but > it didn't work either. > It's possible it's a bug in Epoch somewhere, but I've read the code many > times and it should have printed something to the console, anything by the > time it dies, since all the previous code seems pretty fool-proof, and > since /bin/sh wouldn't work as an init either, it makes me strongly > suspect it's not Epoch's fault. > > === BSD has an init system. The source is there. > === What exactly is your problem? What do you want to do > === with your init that you can't do with the default install? > > Jan: A lot of things can be done in Epoch easier, actually. Especially > status related stuff is quite nice in Epoch, I made sure of it since I use > it a lot. To answer the question as to what problems I have, the agency > has not yet finished collating the list. I'll be sure to write when they > complete it. > > === Not that I know what init=/bin/sh means, > === but how does it make anything simpler? > > It allows me to use not only any binary as init, but Linux permits > executable scripts with a hashbang to be run as init as well. Reaping > however, is a little more complicated. Most shells seem to do this on > their own somehow anyways.
