[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: kernel command line
From: |
Thomas Bushnell, BSG |
Subject: |
Re: kernel command line |
Date: |
07 May 2001 18:19:42 -0700 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 |
Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> writes:
> > Makes perfect sense. Looking at the output of ps to get the kernel command
> > line is a natural thing to do, and much better than /proc/cmdline indeed.
> > I don't see any explicit need for a fancier programmable interface either.
>
> Well, I'm not entirely sanguine about the "PID 2 is the kernel" convention.
> It is not actually a convention, it is just happenstance.
I agree with Roland.
"PID 2 is the kernel; just look at ps" is to "read a good
/proc/cmdline" as "skill" is to "kill `cat /var/run/foo.pid`".
- kernel command line, Marcus Brinkmann, 2001/05/04
- Re: kernel command line, Marcus Brinkmann, 2001/05/04
- Re: kernel command line, Roland McGrath, 2001/05/05
- Re: kernel command line, Marcus Brinkmann, 2001/05/06
- Re: kernel command line, Roland McGrath, 2001/05/06
- Re: kernel command line,
Thomas Bushnell, BSG <=
- Re: kernel command line, Marcus Brinkmann, 2001/05/08
- Re: kernel command line, Roland McGrath, 2001/05/14
- Re: kernel command line, Marcus Brinkmann, 2001/05/14
- Re: kernel command line, Roland McGrath, 2001/05/15
- Re: kernel command line, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2001/05/15
- Re: kernel command line, Roland McGrath, 2001/05/15
- Re: kernel command line, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2001/05/15
- Re: kernel command line, Roland McGrath, 2001/05/18
- Re: kernel command line, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2001/05/18
- Re: kernel command line, Roland McGrath, 2001/05/18