[klibc] [patch 00/12] ipconfig and nfsmount compatibility with glibc

[H. Peter Anvin]

Erik van Konijnenburg wrote:
> 
> Oops, my description was a bit sloppy; sorry about that.  The program in
> question (working name: trymount) is not intended as a kinit replacement
> but as a smaller building block to be used in the context of an init
> script, either on an initrd or initramfs.  In the script, it comes after
> module loading and before an optional interactive shell for debugging
> and the switch to the final root device.
> 
> Different program with a different name and a different purpose; the
> only reason to describe it as a rewrite of kinit is that while building
> it, I payed very close attention to the magic you used to reliably
> integrate ipconfig and nfsmount.
> 

Okay, that makes a lot more sense.

I'm actually in the middle of a rewrite of kinit at the moment; there 
are a lot of things about the program that have bugged me for a long 
time, and I don't think that achieving integration with the kernel is 
really possible without that step.

	-hpa