From: Cameron Patrick <cameron@patrick.wattle.id.au>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] mconsole telinit design, worry about init standards?
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:42:00 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040206054200.GC22141@patrick.wattle.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040206003759.GY4203@erizo.shearer.org>
Dan Shearer wrote:
| 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.
How about having some kind of generic interface to allow the host to
access files, send signals, etc inside the VM? That would be overkill
for a simple telinit but could open up other possibilities too.
Cameron.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-06 5:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-06 0:37 [uml-devel] mconsole telinit design, worry about init standards? Dan Shearer
2004-02-06 5:42 ` Cameron Patrick [this message]
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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