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Porting cinit to other operating systems,
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Nico Schottelius, 2005-06-02
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cinit is currently Linux-specific.
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It currently does not compile / work on other Unices, because
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we use O_ASYNC flag of open(2) which is _not_ a standard.
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This way we can act very elegant on incoming connections by our
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forks. If somebody finds a at least as elegant solution
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to act on incoming data which is more portable, I would
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be happy to recieve a diff -u.
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Additionally we currently do mount a temporarily filesystem
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on /etc/cinit/tmp, which allows us to create a socket, where
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nothing is mounted r/w yet.
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If a Unix has some kind of tmpfs, this can easily be changed
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to the appropriate value in conf/*tmp*.
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The O_ASYNC thing will become a compile option to cinit
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(via conf/socket_function for instance), so that using standard
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mechanism will be possible.
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