Followup to: <20011213155532Z284289-18284+114@vger.kernel.org>
By author: DevilKin <devilkin@gmx.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hello
>
> I've been looking on the web, and couldn't really find what i would want...
>
> Basically: is it possible to - one way or another - set variables at
> kernel boot and read those using userspace utilities?
>
The entire kernel command line is quoted verbatim in /proc/cmdline.
Additionally, items of the form foo=bar that are not recognized by the
kernel become environment variables to init, and items not of that
form *sometimes* become command-line options to init...
-hpa
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