> On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Hubert Mantel wrote:
>
> > Ok, this is the complete output of a typical install:
> >
> > PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
> > 1 ? SW 0:01 swapper
> > 2 ? SW 0:00 kflushd
> > 3 ? SW< 0:00 kswapd
> > 4 ? SW 0:00 nfsiod
> > 5 ? SW 0:00 nfsiod
> > 6 ? SW 0:00 nfsiod
> > 7 ? SW 0:00 nfsiod
> > 8 1 S 0:01 linuxrc
> > 17 ? S 0:00 update (bdflush)
> > 18 2 S 0:00 bash
> > 20 5 S 0:00 bash
> > 21 6 S 0:00 bash
> > 24 1 S 0:00 /sbin/YaST
> > 42 2 R 0:02 ps -ax
>
> Here's a novel, off-the-wall, and probably totally impossible suggestion:
> why not stick init in the initrd, have init be loaded from there, and make
> init do special things when it's in an initrd?
This wouldn't help. Init would be assigned PID #8, too.
> J. S. Connell | Systems Adminstrator, ICONZ. Any opinions stated above
Hubert mantel@suse.de
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