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Joke alertJoke alertPosted Jan 19, 2013 16:44 UTC (Sat) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205)In reply to: Joke alert by nix Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience
>You can already run Emacs as /sbin/init,
This isn't true, is it? Do people do that?
I'm scared to try because I don't know Emacs well enough to undo it.
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Joke alert Posted Jan 19, 2013 20:10 UTC (Sat) by tom.prince (subscriber, #70680) [Link]
> I'm scared to try because I don't know Emacs well enough to undo it.
If you just pass init=/usr/bin/emacs on the kernel command line, you shouldn't need to do anything to undo it.
Joke alert Posted Jan 20, 2013 8:04 UTC (Sun) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205) [Link]
> If you just pass init=/usr/bin/emacs on the kernel command line, you shouldn't need to do anything to undo it.
That didn't work. Maybe this is a bug in Fedora's initram, because it worked the last time I tried it (several years ago, and with an actual init program).
For those curious, I did manage to do it though, by popping open my initramfs and adding an explicit INIT=/bin/emacs after the code which sets the INIT variable. The result was emacs saying "cannot open /dev/tty" and bailing, and then the kernel panicked.
If only udev had been merged into emacs..
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