From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 22 20:02:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA25669 for current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 20:02:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA25660 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 20:02:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.7.6/8.6.5) with SMTP id UAA01712; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 20:04:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610230304.UAA01712@root.com> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.root.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Julian Elischer , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: another patch for comment] In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:32:49 PDT." <6802.846037969@time.cdrom.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 20:04:01 -0700 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> here's another patch I'd like to add. >> >> hopefully I can also eventually add a '/stand/selftest' > >I think this is starting to get a little silly, all these "fall back" >paths to invoke as init. Rather than add another, for a total of 5 >init possibilities now, wouldn't a more general mechanism be >warranted? Otherwise, I see no reason why you couldn't just keep this >on your own branch - it doesn't look like something of truly general >utility. Perhaps we should add a general mechanism for passing in an "init" filename via a boot command line option. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project