> The behaviour of the kernel upon the death of init appears to have changed
> recently. I recall a discussion about it, but wasn't aware that it had already
> happened.
>
> What was the reason for it?
>
> It breaks the established behavioural pattern of the kernel. Specifically, it
> means that Alt-SysRq-L-S-U-B only ever gets as far as the Alt-SysRq-L before
> the kernel hangs, leaving the filesystems mounted and unsyncable.
>
> Also, it means that if you boot with init=/bin/bash, then open more bashes on
> new VCs, the machine falls over when you exit the first one.
>
> Furthermore, it breaks machines that I've set up where /sbin/init is a script
> along the lines of...
>
> #!/bin/sh
> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0
> /sbin/ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0
> /sbin/sysctl-ipforward on
>
> When the script finishes, these machines just hang, rather than continuing to
> route the packets that they're supposed to.
>
> Unless there's a particularly good reason for the change, I'd like to revert
> to the established behaviour.
>
Temporarily, execute the following 'C' program as your last shell command.
main()
{
for(;;)
pause();
}
That will keep your machine alive.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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predecessors. So Clinton can take credit for Viagra and the
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