Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net> writes:
> ps - do you mind if i ask which part of my silly idea you object to
> more?  is it the part where init uses the kernel as a bulletin board
> so that anyone can find out what "state" the system is in?  or is it
> the part where shutdown just tells init to change "state" and init
> does the actually shutting down?

It's the part where we provide mechanisms to do runlevels -- in
kernel, in init, in anywhere.

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Perry Metzger		perry@piermont.com
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