[erlang-questions] crazy thoughts: inittab and erl node

[Toby Thain]

On 7-May-07, at 2:39 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:

> jm wrote:
>> Has anyone attempted to start an erlang node from inittab? For  
>> example,
>> something like
>>
>>  n0:2345:/usr/sbin/erl -noshell
>>
>> or for the more crazy out there doing embedded systems: Replacing
>> /sbin/init with an erlang node? Now I've have no idea what the  
>> advantage
>> or disadvantages of such a set up would be. It's just a random  
>> thought
>> that occured to me and I was interested to know if anyone had  
>> tried it.
>
> If you did this, how would you configure networking, perform  
> filesystem
> checks, etc?

That all happens before init is started.

--T

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