Edward, please comment the daylights out of it. Your shellscript might
be used for education, proof of concept, and propaganda for years to
come. If your shellscript had existed in the fall of 2014, I would have
tried it before I tried Felker.

SteveT

On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 13:16:03 +0200
Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Since Felker's minimal init as coded in C works, I will now try to
> implement it in /bin/sh script, hopefully.
> If it works as intended, I will post the resulting script.
>
> Edward
>
> On 14/06/2016, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wrote a small shell script, nothing special, mind you, that calls
> > rc S and then rc 2 if rc S is successful. With Felker's minimal
> > init, which I edited to call my script version, I was able to load
> > a useable XFCE4 session through which I am sending this email.
> >
> > I am attaching both Felker's C code as I modified it and my little
> > shell script.
> >
> > Now I would like to ask what is the need of the fork() call in
> > Felker's code. Yes, I know, it creates a child that continues
> > execution just after the fork call.
> >
> > My reasoning goes like this. Since the parent process calling fork()
> > gets a return value consisting of the child's PID, the infinite loop
> > executes to reap zombies. Hence, the parent's execution end point is
> > the infinite loop. The created child inherits many aspects of its
> > parent and STARTS execution just after the fork() call but it gets a
> > return value of ZERO. This means, the child will not enter the
> > infinite loop and will call execve at the end. On termination, I
> > expect the child to exit. In the end, according to my reasoning,
> > only the parent should remain.
> >
> > I checked with XFCE4 loaded how many instances of felker2.bin
> > existed and found that only one existed.
> >
> > Edward
> >
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