Death of init (Was: Re: kill -9 <pid of X>)

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:04:45 +0100

hpa@transmeta.com said:
> Actually, the death of init should either panic the kernel or reboot.
>

I'd rather it didn't. I've had minimal root filesystems with a shell script as
init, which simply brought up the network drivers, enabled routing and exited.

If the kernel rebooted after the script finished, it wouldn't be very useful.

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