Not getting login prompt after CPU entered into cpu_idle() state

Jonathan Neuschäfer j.neuschaefer at gmx.net
Thu Jul 5 14:02:56 EDT 2012


On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 12:56:45AM +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
> Hi...
> 
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Srinidhi M <srinidhi.m26 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > .....@ <arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c>  <kernel_execve>  <271> ret = 0 : /sbin/init
> 
> FYI I absolutely has no hands on experience on this kind of hack, so
> this is purely speculation.
> 
> I am thinking, ret=0 when calling /sbin/init? AFAIK, a successful
> open() operation should return something bigger than 0 as the file
> descriptor.

Only if 0 is already in use.

But isn't that exec and not open?


Thanks,
Jonathan



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