>>>>> Marcus Brinkmann writes: MB> If I understood everything correctly, and if the sysvinit program MB> is informed on each runlevel change, this solution is fine with MB> me. How hard is it to implement?
Somebody should take a look at the Linux sysvinit package, and see how hard it would be to conditionalize all the terminal-handling (and probably lastlog) parts. If it looks easy, then talk to its upstream maintainer, and see if they'll accept our changes as a configure option. Then the only remaining details are adding an option to shut down to the rescue shell, and a few tiny porting fixes. I made the steps in my previous mail too complex: you would't need to change /hurd/init at all, because nobody else would be calling libc's reboot() or functions directly, anyway. You also don't need to make telinit work by RPC... (I think) init just uses Unix signals for communication. I do think that we should keep sysvinit as /sbin/init, and rename /hurd/init, so that people aren't confused by the two init programs (accidentally running one instead of the other). Thomas? So as far as the actual effort needed to make this work, it should be pretty minimal: sysvinit won't need any deep magic in order to work, since it'll only be parsing inittab, running programs, and waiting for signals. -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)
