linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter

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Message-ID: <20080306205736.GA22756@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 6 Mar 2008 21:57:37 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Pawel Plociennik <paplociennik@...il.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter


* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:

> It's useless because it's exactly and trivially replaceable with:
>
> 	init=/path/to/any/sbin/chroot /newroot /sbin/init

ok, i didnt realize that this was possible. Ah ... i see, 
init/main.c:init_setup() is special and picks the whole boot parameter 
string up to the end, right? So init= is the only multi-parameter 
init-parameter.

	Ingo
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