init: API

Avi Kivity avi at argo.co.il
Sun Nov 20 16:32:12 UTC 2005


Gilboa Davara wrote:

>The service manager must be allowed to operate with /bin only. Nothing
>else.
>(Let alone fixing it if things go terribly wrong.)
>  
>
I object. This requirement will keep us in the 1970s forever. It has 
already inflicted enough damage in forcing untold millions to learn vi.

This distinction between /bin and /usr/bin is completely artificial. If 
initrd (or whatever) was able to find our /, it should be able to find 
our /usr.




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