Boot stap code & nash

Posted Sep 16, 2008 9:19 UTC (Tue) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)
Parent article: The 2008 Linux Kernel Summit

What are the evils of nash?

I certainly prefer it to fedora's initrd. There a few times when I've had to stick a statically compiled bash shell into a fedora installer initrd to debug it. Grumble.

Boot stap code & nash

Posted Sep 16, 2008 11:00 UTC (Tue) by dberkholz (guest, #23346) [Link]

"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.