On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 05:29:41AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > BTW right, when i tried to run /sbin/init and it fails due to broken
> > libc i got kernel panic.  Would be nice to have a possibility to walk
> > through initpathes when init is found but during execution some error
> > happens.  Instead of just panic.
> 
> The trouble is, that error happens after init has been successfully
> started (as far as the kernel machinery is concerned), and thus there
> is nothing obvious to distinguish it from a case where everything
> starts and chugs along for days and _then_ init dies, in which case a
> panic is entirely appropriate.

You could use a timerout to set the panic mode after e.g. 1 second.

Joerg

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