upstart as init in a chroot

[Scott James Remnant]

On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 10:41 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:

> I would like to run upstart's init as "init" (not re-exec'd to telinit)
> in a chroot.  Here's the premise... I have a chroot of feisty that I
> built with debootstrap.  What I'd like to do now is:
> 
> # chroot /mnt/feisty /sbin/init
> 
> So that the chroot environment starts and runs like a regular linux
> system.
> 
This is not possible.

Upstart relies on being process #1 for various features to work, and
expects to be granted the special handling that the kernel gives to that
process.

In the future, we may allow for "stripped down" handling; without
various useful features, possibly by communication with the real init,
but this isn't on the cards any time soon.

Scott
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