From: Dan Shearer <dan@shearer.org>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: miquels@cistron.nl
Subject: [uml-devel] mconsole telinit design, worry about init standards?
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:07:59 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040206003759.GY4203@erizo.shearer.org> (raw)
I've got a rough implementation of an mcsonole telinit command, where
mconsole_kern opens /dev/initctl and sends a command to change
runlevels. Some small changes in arch/um/mconsole_kern.c.
This raises a question about UML design. UML shouldn't be dependent on
any specific program running inside the VM. In this case, /dev/initctl
is implemented by the init usually found on Linux systems, from the
sysvinit package by Miquel van Smoorenburg. But is this too specific?
I have the impression that close to zero Linuz distros install any other
init, but I don't have good evidence. Perhaps Miquel can comment on
this.
I have looked for a standard definition of what communication mechanisms
init should have but haven't found anything so far.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-06 0:37 Dan Shearer [this message]
2004-02-06 5:42 ` [uml-devel] mconsole telinit design, worry about init standards? Cameron Patrick
2004-02-07 15:33 ` BlaisorBlade
2004-02-09 0:11 ` Michael Richardson
2004-02-12 1:14 ` Jeff Dike
2004-02-12 1:47 ` Dan Shearer
2004-02-12 3:49 ` Jeff Dike
2004-02-12 4:40 ` Dan Shearer
2004-02-13 11:03 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-02-13 11:23 ` Dan Shearer
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