On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Jake Anderson wrote:
On 31/08/09 13:04, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
AFAIK no *NIX based computer would run without one ... as soon as the
kernel spawns init from there on its all shells ....
So demise, ahh, no.
jobst
There is no reason init needs to be a (textual) shell.
Except you'd wish it was at 4am when the server won't boot and you need to fix
a file etc.....
But yeah, you'd at least expect it to be able to fork() some kind of sub
process.
Is not a shell defined by this exact ability (ie fork())?
rachel
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