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Boot stap code & nash

Boot stap code & nash

Posted Sep 16, 2008 11:00 UTC (Tue) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346)
In reply to: Boot stap code & nash by error27
Parent article: The 2008 Linux Kernel Summit

"nash" stands for "not a shell." You can't actually write standard shell syntax for your initrd's linuxrc -- it's got lots of missing and extra features. Here's a copy of the nash man page. Something like a shell but not quite a shell is just confusing.


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