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authorAvery, Brian <b.avery@hp.com>2005-09-06 15:16:56 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-09-07 16:57:23 -0700
commitc1d7ef70a71eb54fb389a9a411d331661be73056 (patch)
tree5034edc010e2ad898f1fe81a0937352aae95de93 /init
parent8fc2751beb0941966d3a97b26544e8585e428c08 (diff)
downloadlinux-c1d7ef70a71eb54fb389a9a411d331661be73056.tar.gz
[PATCH] Add warning `init=' to init/main.c
I passed init=/mylinuxrc to the kernel on the command line.  The kernel
silently dropped down to exec /sbin/init.  It turned out that /mylinuxrc
had improper permissions.  Without any warning message from the kernel that
something was wrong it took awhile to find the issue.  The patch below adds
a warning.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/main.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index a29fb2ac7240..e4dbcbcd26cf 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -708,10 +708,11 @@ static int init(void * unused)
 	 * The Bourne shell can be used instead of init if we are 
 	 * trying to recover a really broken machine.
 	 */
-
-	if (execute_command)
+	if (execute_command) {
 		run_init_process(execute_command);
-
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "Failed to execute %s.  Attempting "
+					"defaults...\n", execute_command);
+	}
 	run_init_process("/sbin/init");
 	run_init_process("/etc/init");
 	run_init_process("/bin/init");