linux-kernel - Re: Does init start with any open files?

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:40:21 -0600
From:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To:	bbi5291 <bbi5291@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does init start with any open files?

On 12/25/2012 01:38:09 AM, bbi5291 wrote:
> When the init process is created on system startup, does it have any
> open file descriptors? If so, where do they point?

Last I checked, it worked like this:

If there's a /dev/console in initramfs, stdin, stdout, and stderr will  
point to that. If you select no initramfs, you get one with just  
/dev/console. If you create your own initramfs and don't put  
/dev/console in it, init gets no file descriptors and there's a line  
about it in dmesg.

Rob--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/