From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 19 5:50:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ulysses.noc.ntua.gr (ulysses.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.222.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA0A1549B for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 05:50:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adamo@dblab.ece.ntua.gr) Received: from dblab.ece.ntua.gr (ithaca.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr [147.102.12.1]) by ulysses.noc.ntua.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA16154; Wed, 19 May 1999 15:50:17 +0300 (EET DST) Received: from hawk.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr (hawk.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr [147.102.12.8]) by dblab.ece.ntua.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA21227; Wed, 19 May 1999 15:48:16 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from george@localhost) by hawk.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr (8.9.3/8.9.2) id PAA01839; Wed, 19 May 1999 15:50:15 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 15:50:14 +0300 From: Yiorgos Adamopoulos To: Michael Robinson Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Astonishingly stupid question Message-ID: <19990519155014.A1803@dblab.ece.ntua.gr> Reply-To: adamo@dblab.ece.ntua.gr References: <199905190922.RAA44161@netrinsics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199905190922.RAA44161@netrinsics.com>; from Michael Robinson on Wed, May 19, 1999 at 05:22:56PM +0800 X-Organization: Knowledge and Data Base Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, GREECE X-URL: http://tupac.net/hood/adamo X-Alt-Email: adamo@ieee.org X-Work-Phone: +30-1-772-1-436 X-Work-FAX: +30-1-772-1-442 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 05:22:56PM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: > anything go horribly wrong if that person replaced /sbin/init with something > like a properly configured Python interpreter and rebooted the system? IIRC, init is the first thing executed by the kernel (that is why it has PID 1). I think everything will go horribly bad- but if you can spare a system, why don't you try it? -- Yiorgos Adamopoulos -- #include adamo@dblab.ece.ntua.gr -- Knowledge and Data Base Systems Laboratory, NTUA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message