Re: Linuxrc runs with PID 7

[Rogier Wolff]

Paul Powell wrote:
> This is a followup question to my previous question
> "Why isn't init at PID 1."
> 
> Previoulsy I was calling init from within linuxrc. 
> Linuxrc was a sash script, so the sash script
> supposedly had PID 1.  Now I've removed the script and
> have a C program for linuxrc.
> 
> I'm still not running at PID 1 but at 7.  The linuxrc
> program looks like:
> 
> int main(int argc, char* argv[])
> {
>    printf("PID = %i\n", getpid());
> }
> 
> When I boot and linuxrc is executed, PID equals 7.
> 
> Any ideas as to why this is and how I can run at PID
> 1?

Yes, I've noticed this too. 

I concluded that to the kernel there is something magic about
"init=/bin/someprogram":  The program doesn't get PID 1 anymore. 

I used to have a script there fire up X and then exec init inside an
Xterm. I gave up on this after that junk started happening.

Oh, and Init refuses to be useful if it doesn't end up with PID 1. 

			Roger. 

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