What is purpose of /init

[Rahul Bedarkar]

Thanks Richard !

And what is
exec 0</dev/console
exec 1>/dev/console

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:24 AM, richard -rw- weinberger
<richard.weinberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Rahul Bedarkar <rpal143 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just saw contents of /init on my system.
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> # devtmpfs does not get automounted for initramfs
>> /bin/mount -t devtmpfs devtmpfs /dev
>> exec 0</dev/console
>> exec 1>/dev/console
>> exec 2>/dev/console
>> exec /sbin/init $*
>>
>> Can someone explain what is meant for ?
>
> It's a hack to get devtmpfs mounted before init starts...
> Looks like your distro does not know CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT. :-)
>
> --
> Thanks,
> //richard