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Date:      Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:53:02 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        dougb@freebsd.org
Cc:        erik.udo@gmail.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Init.c, making it chroot
Message-ID:  <20061231.005302.174088308.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <45975B7B.7030002@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20061228.134053.-1548238884.imp@bsdimp.com> <4595875B.20609@gmail.com> <45975B7B.7030002@FreeBSD.org>

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            Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> writes:
: Erik Udo wrote:
: > That's nice. But NetBSDs init.c executes /etc/rc before calling
: > chroot(), and that's what i'm looking for
: 
: Sorry if I missed your rationale earlier, but could you perhaps
: explain a bit more about why you want to do this? I ask because I'm
: generally interested in boot-time issues, and this sounds like an
: interesting problem.

This allows one to have a 'simple' /etc/rc that arranges things so
that a new '/' is ready to 'boot'.

Warner



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