Re: Kernel eats argument=

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Nico Schottelius wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I wanted to have 'cprofile=a_profile" specified to my init
> system. Now after some hours of debugging I see that
> everything that is in the form of
>
>      bla=blub
>
> is eaten by the kernel and _not_ given to init.
> Is that how it should be or is that a bug?
>
> If it's how it should be, I'll switch to "cprofile:a_profile"
> or will Linux eat that, too?
>
> The most mysterious thing (for me) is that /proc/cmdline
> contains that stuff again.
>
>
> Nico, somehow confused

Init gets a single parameter 'auto'. Variables not understood
by the kernel get put into the environment....

OME=/TERM=linuxSELINUX_INIT=YES
  |
  |______ maybe a bug, no "H".

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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