Re: Inheritance of "/", auth and proc handles

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@utbm.fr> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for your clear explanations and thanks also Moritz for your
> pointers.
> 
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 03:44:53PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > exec_init is not obsolete.  It is, however, only used once in
> > bootstrapping the system, and isn't really relevant to what you're
> > worried about.
> 
> I thought it was obsolete because of the following comment in exec.defs:
> 
>   skip;                           /* obsolete exec_startup */
> 
> Apparently, I misunderstood that. ;)

That indicates that there used to be a call (called exec_startup)
which occupied that position.  (Position, in the sense that the RPCs
are numbered; the order they are presented in the file is important.