Re: emergency or init=/bin/sh mode and terminal signals

From: Samuel Thibault
Date: Mon Jun 19 2006 - 11:46:44 EST


Jan Engelhardt, le Mon 19 Jun 2006 14:08:28 +0200, a écrit :
> >Hi,
> >
> >There's a long-standing issue in init=/bin/sh mode: pressing control-C
> >doesn't send a SIGINT to programs running on the console. The incurred
> >typical pitfall is if one runs ping without a -c option... no way to
> >stop it!
>
> Worse, I can observe same behavior when using "-b", i.e. init=/sbin/init
> called with -b (read: `/sbin/init -b`),

That's equivalent to the "emergency" mode.

Samuel
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