Init.c, making it chroot

Erik Udo erik.udo at gmail.com
Wed Jan 3 10:06:52 UTC 2007


Nah, forget that patch, it's missing alot of stuff.

On 1/3/07, Erik Udo <erik.udo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just made patch. It's supposed to run /etc/rc before chrooting. This is
> the NetBSD "way" of doing it. All i can say is that it compiled. So if
> anyone can look at it before i get to test it becouse i might be forgetting
> something. (i can't even test it now)
>
> diff attached.
>
> On 12/27/06, Erik Udo < erik.udo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > How can i make init chroot after executing /etc/rc, and executing
> > /etc/rc again in the chrooted enviroment?
> >
> > For this to work, i'd like to know at what point do i call chroot(),
> > becouse init.c uses fork() at the point where it runs the rc script.
> >
> > The thing is, i want to run a whole system in a chrooted enviroment in
> > this livecd i'm making. But the command "chroot /mnt/root /etc/rc"
> > returns after the /etc/rc has been run, dropping me back from the
> > chrooted enviroment. And if it doesn't, init never starts the multiuser
> > mode.
> >
> > So how can i go to the multiuser mode in a chrooted enviroment? I guess
> > the only way to do that is to modify init.c
> >
> > Any help/feedback is appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers, Erik
> >
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