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From: Jacob Moody <moody@mail.posixcafe.org>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] init: Remove an outdated paragraph from the man page
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 11:10:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84bec7e5-908e-b2c4-c058-a153951f0359@posixcafe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y1q6cMjxs1qfS6Xd@quark.home.arpa>

On 10/27/22 11:05, Josiah Frentsos wrote:
> diff 0e9c5f30eabbf213023658efb863dbaf6a608a51 uncommitted
> --- a/sys/man/8/init
> +++ b/sys/man/8/init
> @@ -69,12 +69,6 @@
>  .I command
>  or service class.
>  .PP
> -On a CPU server,
> -.I init
> -requires the machine's password to be supplied before starting
> -.I rc
> -on the console.
> -.PP
>  .I Init
>  is invoked by
>  .IR boot (8),

This is not exactly incorrect though, I presume this is talking
about boots that lack a nvram for one reason or another, and in those
cases the cpu server will not boot until a key is given. It may be
worth the inclusion of the nvram check, but flat out deleting this
is not right.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-27 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-27 17:05 Josiah Frentsos
2022-10-27 17:10 ` Jacob Moody [this message]
2022-10-27 17:34   ` Josiah Frentsos
2022-11-19 13:13     ` Josiah Frentsos

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