why are init's arguments wiped ?

[Jody Bruchon]

On 2016-01-28 12:02, Nicolas CARRIER wrote:
> Why are init's arguments wipe ?
> I had the hope to pass init some arguments, then read them by looking
> into /proc/1/cmdline, but no luck...

I don't know the answer to the question about init's arguments being 
erased, but assuming you're on Linux, you might consider passing the 
arguments to the kernel at boot time and fetch them from /proc/cmdline 
instead. As long as the kernel doesn't recognize them, they'll be 
silently ignored by the kernel.

-Jody