Re: Init panics

[Tommy McCabe <rocketjet314@yahoo.com>]

--- Eduardo Pereira Habkost
<ehabkost@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 04:34:00PM -0700, Tommy
> McCabe wrote:
> > In line 332 of elkscmd/sys_utils/init.c, there is
> a
> > PANIC that shouldn't be there- it's activated
> > regardless of the preceding if statement. But when
> I
> > take it out, init doesn't print out anything. I
> have
> > literally filled every other line of main() with
> fputs
> > and PANICS and init doesn't print out anything.
> 
> Have you ever used execv() on unix? If you see some
> examples of use
> of execv(), you will see why the panic is there.
> Simply because init
> should really show a error message (I would print a
> error string, instead
> of just calling PANIC0, however), if it can't run
> getty, if the execv()
> call is successful, the PANIC0 line will not be
> executed, because the
> process is replaced by getty. Is getty included on
> your disk?
> 
> -- 
> Eduardo
> 

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