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From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <mike@van-smoorenburg.nl>
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Subject: Re: Does init start with any open files?
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In article <xs4all.CAMmfjbPKGD28070A0JvMyL02juYW5tuwNmVwrJ-1gFzkNhCuDQ@mail.gmail.com> you write:
>When the init process is created on system startup, does it have any
>open file descriptors? If so, where do they point?

0, 1 and 2, which are connected to the console. Boot a kernel with
"init=/bin/bash" and see for yourself.

Mike.