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Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
>> Of course, if we'd been using kinit, "soft panic" would 
>> have been done exclusively in userspace...
> 
> What's the status of kinit, btw?
> 							Pavel

It's bitrotted a bit since it was first rejected.  It wouldn't take too 
much work to bring it back up to speed, however.  klibc, and some of the 
kinit components, are used for the initramfs in Debian.

	-hpa