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

From: Samuel Thibault
Date: Mon Jun 19 2006 - 18:08:01 EST


linux-os (Dick Johnson), le Mon 19 Jun 2006 07:37:02 -0400, a écrit :
> You can't allow some terminal input to affect init. It has been the
> de facto standard in Unix, that the only time one should have a
> controlling terminal is after somebody logs in and owns something to
> control.

Ok. The following still makes sense, doesn't it? (i.e. set a session for
the emergency shell)

--- linux-2.6.17-orig/init/main.c 2006-06-18 19:22:40.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.17-perso/init/main.c 2006-06-20 00:07:07.000000000 +0200
@@ -729,6 +729,11 @@
run_init_process("/sbin/init");
run_init_process("/etc/init");
run_init_process("/bin/init");
+
+ /* Set a session for the shell. */
+ sys_setsid();
+ sys_ioctl(0, TIOCSCTTY, 1);
+
run_init_process("/bin/sh");

panic("No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.");
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