reroot to ggate device

[Mike Wolman]

Hi,

I am trying to reroot to a ggate device something like:

    root@:~ # ggatec create -o rw 192.168.3.11 /tmp/omega2-ggate-fs.img
    ggate0
    root@:~ # kenv vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ggate0
    vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/ggate0"
    root@:~ # reboot -r
    May 13 20:02:59  reroot: rerooted by root
    Stopping cron.
    Stopping devd.
    Writing entropy file:.
    Writing early boot entropy file:/etc/rc.shutdown: WARNING: write 
failed (read-only fs?)
    Terminated
    .
    Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ggate0 []...


Obviously this doesnt work as init kills the ggate0 devices backend 
ggatec process when rerooting.


In init.c for reroot:

      error = kill(-1, SIGKILL);

 From kill (2) man page:

      If pid is -1:
              If the user has super-user privileges, the signal is sent 
to all
              processes excluding system processes (with P_SYSTEM flag 
set) ...


Is it possible to set a userland programs p_flag to P_SYSTEM somehow?

Or is it possible/sensible to edit init to accept a pid as an argument 
not to kill when rerooting?

Or is this just not feasible without hacking init as in this 
idea:https://github.com/freqlabs/nbd-init