Re: [MiNT] trunk 1-18-cur

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

Peter Slegg wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:30:17 , Helmut Karlowski <helmut.karlowski@ish.de> wrote:
> > Am 12.04.2011, 21:39 Uhr, schrieb Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>:
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> > >> I think that would need to be done in mint, not xaaes
> > >>
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> > > Why would you need the kernel to start an app like a shell ?
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> > Because there are other INIT-clients that could fail than XaAES.
> >
> > But I guess it's easier to do this in xaloader, and maybe in the kernel
> > later.
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> Maybe I don't understand but at the moment xaloader says -
> can't find xaaes060.km press any key to continue.
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> If a key is pressed it just repeats the above. Would it not
> be better for xaloader to call a shell at that point ?
> Where do other init clients come into the problem of xaloader
> not finding it's km ?
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> > Peter: Do you know the xaloader-pid now?
>
> The problem is that it doesn't run for very long before it crashes.
> Do you want to know the pid when xaloader is started from sh or when
> init starts it directly ?
>
> It even crashed when I did ctrl-alt-L
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> > I could also imagine to add a optional arg for xaloader, e.g. xaloader -f
> > [fallback-shell]
>
> Does xaloader know where it was started from ?
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> Peter
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-Helmut