What is purpose of /init

[Rahul Bedarkar]

Sorry!

and what is meant by
exec 0</dev/console
exec 1>/dev/console


On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Rahul Bedarkar <rpal143 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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