[BusyBox] still fighting with minit

[Glenn McGrath]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 06:04:26 -0500 (EST)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:

>  a glance, i'm assuming that this is what i should have noticed.
> in the current (2.4.22) version of our kernel, in init/main.c, i see
> the code:
> 
> 	static char * argv_init[MAX_INIT_ARGS+2] = { "init", NULL, };
> 	...
> 	if (execute_command)
>                 execve(execute_command,argv_init,envp_init);
>         execve("/sbin/init",argv_init,envp_init);
>         execve("/etc/init",argv_init,envp_init);
>         execve("/bin/init",argv_init,envp_init);
>         execve("/bin/sh",argv_init,envp_init);
>         panic("No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.");
> 
> and in the 2.6 code in that same file, i find:
> 
> static void run_init_process(char *init_filename)
> 	{
>         	argv_init[0] = init_filename;
>         	execve(init_filename, argv_init, envp_init);
> 	}
> 	...
> 
> 	if (execute_command)
>                 run_init_process(execute_command);
> 
>         run_init_process("/sbin/init");
>         run_init_process("/etc/init");
>         run_init_process("/bin/init");
>         run_init_process("/bin/sh");
> 
>         panic("No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.");
> 
> which, to my untrained eye, seems to solve that particular problem.
> is this what you were referring to?  again, thanks for your time.


Yes, thats it, run_init_process sets argv[0] properly.


Glenn