Bug 6812 - On line manual entry for "init" not helpful
Summary: On line manual entry for "init" not helpful
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Busybox
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P5 minor
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Reported: 2014-01-21 18:09 UTC by idrathernot2010
Modified: 2016-01-03 21:48 UTC (History)
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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.