Bug 6812

Summary: On line manual entry for "init" not helpful
Product: Busybox Reporter: idrathernot2010
Component: OtherAssignee: unassigned
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor CC: busybox-cvs
Priority: P5    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description idrathernot2010 2014-01-21 18:09:20 UTC 
The description for "init" on http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html is not helpful: "Init is the parent of all processes".

Which "init" it implements would be more helpful: "init implements a subset of the SysV init mechanism". A pointer to the description of /etc/inittab" would be more helpful (but that doesn't exist either).

What arguments does it take? How are then entered (I know - it depends ...)
Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2016-01-03 21:48:29 UTC 
$ busybox init --help
BusyBox v1.25.0.git (2015-12-30 16:53:51 CET) multi-call binary.

Usage: init

Init is the first process started during boot. It never exits.
It (re)spawns children according to /etc/inittab.