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minimal init daemon by rich felker, author of musl libc
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 700
#include <signal.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main()
{
sigset_t set;
int status;
if (getpid() != 1) return 1;
sigfillset(&set);
sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &set, 0);
if (fork()) for (;;) wait(&status);
sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &set, 0);
setsid();
setpgid(0, 0);
return execve("/etc/rc", (char *[]){ "rc", 0 }, (char *[]){ 0 });
}
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ghost commented Apr 3, 2023

Is it not possible to straight up execute the /etc/rc script? Just by adding init=/etc/rc to the kernel command line?

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ghost commented Apr 14, 2023

Just go outside instead of turning on your computer. It uses 0B of disk space

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ghost commented May 17, 2023

I'm 100% sure this is way too slow. We need to write this in assembly. So that it'll fit in 1 sector of a drive.

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ghost commented May 17, 2023

I like shell scripts that don't need to be recompiled... A mount -a && /etc/rc works just fine

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yurayko commented Nov 25, 2023

Is it not possible to straight up execute the /etc/rc script? Just by adding init=/etc/rc to the kernel command line?

You need a always running daemon, who will be reap a zombie. It is single work for init.
If you redirect this job to /etc/rc, you got a systemd again.
You cannot start an another daemon from /etc/rc for this. Zombie go to process with PID 1. /etc/rc have a PID 1 in your case.

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