On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:01:36PM -0700, Ryan Finnie wrote: > This patch adds stage 4, an optional stage which is run after stage 3. > If /etc/runit/4 is found and executable, runit will execve() into it, > giving it control of PID 1. Finnix (http://www.finnix.org/) uses runit > as its init system, and uses this patch as a way to pivot root back into > a ramdisk upon shutdown, so it may cleanly umount the union mount which > houses runit.
Hi Ryan, I'm not sure how interesting this is for general use. It's the first time I hear about the need for a stage 4. And actually I wouldn't call it so, because runit no longer runs but got replaced. Finally, when considering an updated version, documentation is missing ;). Regards, Gerrit.
