On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:39:06AM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote: > Author: brucec > Date: Tue Aug 17 09:39:06 2010 > New Revision: 211417 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/211417 > > Log: > To restart, sysinstall calls execl. Since it will create a new process, we execl(3) does not create new process, it changes the executed program of the existing process. In particular, the pid is left unchanged.
> can't check to see if sysinstall is running as init just by checking if the > PID is 0. Introduce a new option that sets the RunningAsInit flag, and > update init pid is 1. > the code to check RunningAsInit intstead of getpid(). > > PR: bin/38854 > Submitted by: Peter Sedeffow <peter at trumanbrewery.com> > Approved by: rrs (mentor) > MFC after: 1 month
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