INIT(8)INIT(8)NAME
init: emuinit, osinit - Inferno initialisation
SYNOPSIS
Init: module
{
init: fn();
};
/dis/emuinit.dis
#/./osinit.dis
DESCRIPTION
Both emu(1) and the native kernels run a Dis program to initialise the
system.
Emuinit is the default initialisation program for emu(1). Emu sets the
environment variable (see env(3)) /env/emuargs to the command line
originally given to emu, which has the following form:
emu [-d] [ command [ arg ...] ]
Emuinit uses the value of emuargs to decide which command to start and
its arguments. The default command is /dis/sh.dis, unless the -d
option is given, in which case /dis/lib/srv.dis is used by default
instead, to cause emu to run on the host system as a server (`daemon'
mode).
Osinit is built-in to the root(3) of native kernels. Although the ker‐
nel uses the fixed name #/./osinit.dis the contents are taken from one
of the files in /os/init selected by the init section of the kernel
configuration file. Osinit's action is platform-specific in detail,
but might include: building an initial /dev by mounting device drivers;
binding the physical network driver (eg, ether(3)) into /net and ini‐
tialising ip(3), usually setting addresses and routes using bootp;
attaching to a remote file system; setting up flash translation using
ftl(3); starting dossrv or 9660srv (see dossrv(4)), or kfs(3) to serve
local files from disk or flash memory.
FILES
/env/emuargs
SOURCE
/appl/cmd/emuinit.b
/os/init/*.b
SEE ALSOemu(1)INIT(8)
