On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 04:02:57PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> > That's easy - init can tell the kernel that it is running now, and all is OK.
> > After that, panic, before then, try some other init path.  init would tell
> > the kernel all is OK as just about the first thing it does in main().
>
> This doesn't cover all cases. In case of a partially corrupted libc, init may
> die after the syscall has been issued.

Right. That's why I think we'll have more luck with a static init. I do
though think it would be good to make it easy for end users to make a
static init using the modules (dynamically) available to libc for
authentication.

Take care,

Bill