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Re: initctl, wrapping, and cruft

To: David McCabe <davidmccabe@xxxxxxx>, devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: initctl, wrapping, and cruft
From: Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:23:32 +0200
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Reply-to: Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 19:00, David McCabe wrote:
> I want to know, therefore, what prevents us from moving the initctl pipe
> that init creates to some other location, such as /var? Then we could
> simply put the devfs mounting and and /dev-state stuff at the very
> beginning of our boot scripts, and not have the wrapper kluge. It would
> be a one line patch on simpleinit.
>
> Is there anything I don't understand that would make this impractical?

What if /var is a different file system and therefore not mounted at the time 
init starts?

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