Re: Documentation for init

2014-08-28 Thread Rob Landley
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2014-08-26 18:00, Rob Landley wrote: >>> * Doesn't have a session ID until it calls setsid() (not certain about >>> this one) >> >> News to me. >> > I think now (after reading the rest of your e-mail) that I am wrong > about this.

Re: Documentation for init

2014-08-28 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2014-08-26 18:00, Rob Landley wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn > wrote: >> A lot of LiveCD's make use of this >> to control hardware detection and module loading. The only open file >> descriptors (i believe, I may be wrong) are 0, 1, and 2, all pointing at >> /de

Re: Documentation for init

2014-08-26 Thread Rogelio Serrano
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > I used to maintain busybox init, and am researching to do a "lunchd" > on toybox (mdev is to udev as lunchd is to systemd, think "OSX launchd > without the insane xml file formats", only with at least one less > letter's worth of functionalit

Re: Documentation for init

2014-08-26 Thread Rob Landley
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2014-08-26 01:48, Shea Levy wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Is there any official documentation of the init process? I'm >> specifically interested in the process state at kernel handoff (argv, >> envp, open fds, etc.) as well as any special

Re: Documentation for init

2014-08-26 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2014-08-26 01:48, Shea Levy wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there any official documentation of the init process? I'm > specifically interested in the process state at kernel handoff (argv, > envp, open fds, etc.) as well as any special properties pid 1 has > (parent of all orphans, anything else?). >

Documentation for init

2014-08-25 Thread Shea Levy
Hi all, Is there any official documentation of the init process? I'm specifically interested in the process state at kernel handoff (argv, envp, open fds, etc.) as well as any special properties pid 1 has (parent of all orphans, anything else?). Thanks, Shea Levy P.S. I am not subscribed to LKML