On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Andy Green wrote: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > > i'm assuming that any command in the initramfs nash "init" script has > > to come from one of two places, no? > ... > > listed in the man page, and it's not a separate executable. so what's > > the story with "hotplug"? and "mkblkdevs" for that matter? if > > they're nash built-ins, they're certainly not mentioned in the man > > page. > > > > or am i missing something? > > No, you're quite right... nash manpage says > > Mon Aug 02 2004 > > at the bottom, although in the sources it hies from 2006. It seems > you will have to "use the source, luke" if you want to understand > these exotic nash builtins. and just to confirm my original question, any command being run in the init script *must* come from one of exactly two places: 1) nash built-in, or 2) the initramfs directory structure i ask since i just noticed another command, "stabilized", that i'm going to assume is yet another built-in that didn't make it into the latest man page. i think i'll just download the source and poke around myself. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
