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Re: [MiNT] trunk 1-18-cur



Peter Slegg wrote:

> > 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.
>
> Maybe I don't understand but at the moment xaloader says -
> can't find xaaes060.km press any key to continue.
>
> If a key is pressed it just repeats the above. Would it not

In that case xaloader would exit. I guess it's restarted by init.

> 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 ?

So the solution with the fallback-shell sounds good.

> > 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 ?

Any situation - I thought I could decide to start a shell when it has pid 1, but that was not a good idea.

>
> It even crashed when I did ctrl-alt-L

What is ctrl-alt-L?

> Does xaloader know where it was started from ?

Why is it important?


-Helmut