On 7 Oct 2001, Thomas Hood wrote:
> I think you'll understand why I say that it is not handled
> _correctly_ and that the handling must be brought under
> the user's control ... if not via a /proc entry then by
> a build option or boot option. I invite advice about this.
The final part doesn't need to be in kernel space at all.
(And from my reading of the spec, shouldn't be, as it signifies
the OS completed the final stages of booting successfully)
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/sbf.c
is some quick code I hacked up when bootflag.c first appeared.
Its not perfect, and I have some outstanding patches that Randy Dunlap
sent to clean up some bits, but I've not got around to merging them.
regards,
Dave.
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