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  • From: Seth Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>
  • To: Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • Cc: Robert Helgesson <rycee AT home.se>, sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] init woes
  • Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 14:20:41 -0700 (PDT)

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I'd rather fork off a daemon and do ipc to it... maybe use afrayednot's
ipc tools if not bash...

or we could do it all in python ;)

There's also nvram we could use :)

Seth

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Paul Mahon wrote:

> You're right, it's not required for anything. henh, you could mount the
> swap partition as ext2 until there's a real FS... ;)
>
> On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 03:22, Robert Helgesson wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 02:23:34 -0500, Paul Mahon wrote:
> > > I don't suppse it would be possible to mount a tmpfs system right at the
> > > start?
> >
> > Yes, that would probably work, but I'm not sure that it's safe to assume
> > tmpfs being available on all smgl installations. Is tmpfs required by
> > anything else?
> >
> > > On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 00:25, Robert Helgesson wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 23:41:53 -0500, Paul Mahon wrote:
> > > > > I don't know how the init stuff actualy works, so the no FS
> > > > > limitation
> > > > > may not be as bad. Good ideas though.
> > > >
> > > > It is as bad as you can imagine and worse. Being limited to no
> > > > read/write fs access and no /usr can be quite frustrating at times :)
> --
> De mortuis nihil nisi bonum.
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> What is that funny looking stuff in the attachment?
> http://www.technomom.com/cynthia/pgp/
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