Re: [PATCH] 2.4 and 2.5: remove Alt-Sysrq-L

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:46:42 +0000

rmk@arm.linux.org.uk said:
> I don't know of any Linux kernel that has ever been able to cope with
> PID1 dying. I certainly remember facing the PID1 dying causing lockup
> as far back as 1.3 kernels, and I even tried to fix it back then. The
> argument put forward for not fixing it is that PID1 should not exit.
> Period.

I distinctly recall it working perfectly OK in around 2.1.50. I had boxen
where /sbin/init was a shell script which would bring up the interfaces,
enable routing, and exit.

--
dwmw2




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