On Monday 25 October 2004 02:08, Greg KH wrote: > Think of an initramfs holding the userspace tools to create the initial > mount device (through a network connection, or whatever else you think > of, etc.) > It appears to override the init parameter passed on the command line (If I understand what execute_command is for). Is this also by design? That seems to preclude using another init for recovery. (init=/bin/sh) > > It also looks to be either a security help or a great way to shoot > > yourself in the foot... > > It's allowing us to move a lot of very crappy kernel code into > userspace, and out of the kernel. > That's always a good thing. --Russell -- Russell Miller - rmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx - Le Mars, IA Duskglow Consulting - Helping companies just like you to succeed for ~ 10 yrs. http://www.duskglow.com - 712-546-5886 -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
