[Bug 4520] [RFC] kexecboot: passing extra cmdline arguments

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http://bugs.openembedded.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4520





--- Comment #13 from Thomas Kunze <thommy at tabao.de>  2008-08-30 13:09:20 ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> BTW, should kexecboot binary return from start_kernel invocation?
> We can save some resources by replacing system() call with exec(). system()
> uses '/bin/sh -c' to start process. As I remember, thesing will remove /bin/sh
> at all and use kexecboot as init. Then system() will stop working (AFAIK).
> 
> When we don't needed to wait for /usr/bin/kexec then we can just replace system
> by some of "exec's family".

The "kexec -e" doesn't return but the "kexec -l" one does. So some fork+exec
stuff would be needed for that one.

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