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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 19:14:40 +0100
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Custom init(8)
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On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 06:04:29PM +0100, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> Sorry, but this really doesn't help me to know how _the simplest_ possible
> init(8) could look like...

You'll have to reap any zombie process in the system and not exit, and
that's about it.

man waitpid for details on repeaing children.

Of course, you might want to start a shell or do something else
useful...

BTW: sysinstall (from the install floppy) is another example of an
application that run as init.

Eivind.