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

[Guillaume Chazarain]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Pawel Plociennik
<paplociennik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sunday 02 March 2008 11:00, Guillaume Chazarain wrote:
>  > Wouldn't booting with 'init=/usr/sbin/chroot /path /sbin/init' achieve
>  > the same effect?

>  I think that procces which has pid 0 is a special procces

You mean pid 1, right? ;-)

> because it
>  removes a *zombie* procceses so it is good to use a *dedicated*
>  program for it such as a /sbin/init .
>  /usr/sbin/chroot doesn't remove a *zombie* procceses :-(

Sure, but chroot should then exec /sbin/init as per the given kernel
command line. And then you run a real init.

I cannot try it as I don't have another distribution installed in a
subdirectory, but if you could test it we would quickly know if it
works or not.

Thanks.

-- 
Guillaume
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