inittab ignored by reboot / halt

Chris Craig chris at microtronix.com
Wed Oct 22 15:14:27 UTC 2008


Denys Vlasenko wrote:
 > +/* Was a CONFIG_xxx option. A lot of people were building
 > + * not fully functional init by switching it on! */
 > +#define DEBUG_INIT 0
 > +

Was it really a lot of people?

I still think it would be prudent to mention here that this swallows the 
halt/reboot/poweroff signals, just so someone isn't caught unawares 
(although not having it be a configure option certainly mitigates this).

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Chris Craig
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