-----Original Message----- From: kernelnewbies-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rahul Bedarkar Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 2:35 PM To: richard -rw- weinberger Cc: kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: What is purpose of /init Thanks Richard ! And what is exec 0</dev/console exec 1>/dev/console That means redirect 0 and 1 to /dev/console. On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:24 AM, richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Rahul Bedarkar <rpal143@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just saw contents of /init on my system. >> >> #!/bin/sh >> # devtmpfs does not get automounted for initramfs /bin/mount -t >> devtmpfs devtmpfs /dev exec 0</dev/console exec 1>/dev/console exec >> 2>/dev/console exec /sbin/init $* >> >> Can someone explain what is meant for ? > > It's a hack to get devtmpfs mounted before init starts... > Looks like your distro does not know CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT. :-) > I think that's not true, AFAIK, if kernel found /init, it will not populate devtmpfs automatically even though CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y. -- Thanks, Chengwei > -- > Thanks, > //richard _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
