Writing my own init with Go

Re:Writing my own init with Go by mmarx on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @05:20PM (#11069280)

The kernel already supports acquiring a DHCP lease via the “ip=dhcp” boot option. Why does this need to be a feature of init?

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Re:Writing my own init with Go by CSDude on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @06:25PM (#11069642)

I did not know we could have ip=dhcp option, but I will need to create a network manager now or later, but for trying out some stuff, I can use that flag. Also, I will not bundle services to init, it will be just forking, signaling and waiting. All the other utitilies will be small independent code exercises for me.

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Re:Writing my own init with Go by pjmlp on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @05:25PM (#11069306)

Because init is common to several UNIXes and ip=dhcp is a Linux specific feature?

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Re:Writing my own init with Go by mmarx on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @05:32PM (#11069348)

> Because init is common to several UNIXes and ip=dhcp is a Linux specific feature?

And yet the author seems to be comfortable using those linux-specific features:

“Also, the kernel paremeters must have the rw flag or you have to remount the /dev/sda1 as rw, but changing kernel parameters are much more easier.” (from the follow-up post).

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