klibc - Jul 2004 - kinit

The "kinit" program distributed with klibc 0.153 still attempts to do
a
pivot_root. That doesn't work. The correct way of going into the main 
system is to mount --bind the root and chroot there, as done in the 
"run-init" program. Could you please copy that logic into
"kinit"?

And please fix the comment at the top - there is "/init", not 
"/sbin/init", in initramfs.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 01:55, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Could you please copy that logic into "kinit"?
> 
> And please fix the comment at the top - there is "/init", not 
> "/sbin/init", in initramfs.
Certainly - want to provide a patch, to speed the process up?

	<b

Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> The "kinit" program distributed with klibc 0.153 still attempts
to do a
> pivot_root. That doesn't work. The correct way of going into the main 
> system is to mount --bind the root and chroot there, as done in the 
> "run-init" program. Could you please copy that logic into
"kinit"?
> 
> And please fix the comment at the top - there is "/init", not 
> "/sbin/init", in initramfs.
Worse, I think the name /init has been burned by people using it... that 
whole thing wasn't phased very well.

My current thinking is to call it /kinit in the patch, and AT THE SAME 
TIME add a patch to the kernel to call /kinit if it exists.  This means 
kinit should finish by calling /init if it exists (this is a real issue 
if part of the initramfs comes from the kernel image and part 
externally), otherwise do a run-init equivalent and spawn the real root.

This is probably my #1 priority for next week.

	-hpa