Upstart 0.5.0, /proc, and telinit

[Mark Rosenstand]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Scott James Remnant
<scott at netsplit.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 15:29 -0700, Jeff Oliver wrote:
>
>> I too have a problem with attempting to use upstart as early start /init
>> process.  I'm attempting to use upstart in a embedded environment, so I
>> have an initramfs built into my kernel that is a complete root
>> filesystem.  Unfortunately, upstart depends on /proc, which isn't
>> mounted yet.
>>
> This is a bug.
>
>
>> I ended up rearranging the process_spawn function in that
>> area to attempt to open /proc, but if it fails, i removed the
>> process_error_abort call.  If it succeeds, then attempt to write the
>> oom_adj value as normal.  It seems to work fine for my setup.  It at
>> least allows me to run rc.sysinit (or whatever other script) that will
>> mount /proc.
>>
> Rather than ignoring the error, which would mean a job configuration
> detail would not be set, the patch should instead only attempt to set it
> if there is an OOM adjustment (ie. it's non-default).
>
> Would you be willing to adjust the patch and assign copyright to
> Canonical?
>
> http://upstart.ubuntu.com/wiki/CopyrightAssignment

Is this the only thing that keeps upstart from working on non-initrd
systems? Seems it didn't make it into 0.5.1 :(