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Date:      Wed, 19 May 1999 15:50:14 +0300
From:      Yiorgos Adamopoulos <adamo@dblab.ece.ntua.gr>
To:        Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Astonishingly stupid question
Message-ID:  <19990519155014.A1803@dblab.ece.ntua.gr>
In-Reply-To: <199905190922.RAA44161@netrinsics.com>; from Michael Robinson on Wed, May 19, 1999 at 05:22:56PM %2B0800
References:  <199905190922.RAA44161@netrinsics.com>

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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?

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Yiorgos Adamopoulos         -- #include <std/disclaimer.h>
adamo@dblab.ece.ntua.gr     -- Knowledge and Data Base Systems Laboratory, NTUA



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