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[Seth Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>]

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Current init uses a fifo/named pipe on /dev/initctl -- I'm not sure how
this works with devfs, but it appears to work.  I can look into the source
code on how it does this exactly in a bit if somebody doesn't beat me to
it while I'm at work. I'm sure afrayednot's stuff can use that pipe, eh?

If we save the clock time right away, we can minuplate the clock value
(though it is slightly volatile, esp. in seconds field) and gain some few
extra bits from that.

Seth

P.S.  Yes, Java and XML would be great.  Then we can have the boot screen
use the gecko rendering engine SVG-enabled and display trees of
depenedencies and stuff in SVG.  A bit custom, but all-in-all a great
idea and we should look into it.

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Paul Mahon wrote:

> No, Python is soo amaturish. We should use Java and change the
> simpleinit scripts to XML.
> afrayednot's stuff requires a FS. I'm not sure if it actualy writes to
> the file, but the file must exist.
>
> Could we use the clock memory?
>
>
> On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 16:20, Seth Woolley wrote:
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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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> >
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