On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> I don't think hand crafting a descriptor should be all that much work
> either (though I've not actually tried implementing it, yet :-).
> There's already some crafting of file descriptors for process zero.

That code just sets up a clean, empty set of file descriptors.

> It's also pretty silly that init calls warn() before login_tty() can
> ever be called and thus before stderr is open!  ;-)  [even though it's
> pretty much impossible for the errors being reported from ever occuring
> from process 1]

The presence of warn() does not mean that init has open file descriptors.
:-) It means that someone who wrote the code assumed it did.

AFAICT, init starts with no open file descriptors.

Take care,

Bill