[PATCH] - allow specification of alternate inittab files

[Jason Schoon]

On 11/1/06, B Thomas <bjthomas3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah... that was stupid.  Let's try again with a much smaller, much
> improved version. Thanks for pointing out the obvious silliness in the
> original patch.
>
> -b


Is this really something that busybox init should be handling?  There is
nothing saying you have to use the init out of busybox to start your
system.  Init could simply be a shell script or C application that you
write.

In that case, especially in a shell script, it would be trivial to look for
a command line parameter specifying the inittab (or any other config file,
there is no requirement that you have to use /etc/inittab either) to use for
that boot.

At the very least, I would think this should be a config item, and it should
be wrapped in the existing inittab config item.
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