On 31/08/09 14:16, gr...@zeta.org.au wrote:
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Jake Anderson wrote:
On 31/08/09 13:04, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
AFAIK no *NIX based computer would run without one ... as soon as
the kernel spawns init from there on its all shells ....
So demise, ahh, no.
jobst
There is no reason init needs to be a (textual) shell.
Except you'd wish it was at 4am when the server won't boot and you
need to fix a file etc.....
But yeah, you'd at least expect it to be able to fork() some kind of
sub process.
Is not a shell defined by this exact ability (ie fork())?
rachel
The "dos" shell didn't really have that ability, (it was kinda hacked on
with TSR's and the like but still)
Personally I'm hoping to use python for init and for the program itself,
boot times are important for it as is being pretty ;->.
If you want to do adminy stuff you can login to a python console of the
init process over a tcp connection handy no?
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