Re: [PATCH 1/1] support loading of custom initrd images

[Christian Hesse]

Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden> on Sat, 2016/02/06 09:51:
> > Nevertheless I have another use case:
> > I do use Yubikeys in challenge/response mode to open my LUKS encrypted
> > partition. [1] (This is not specific for mkinitcpio but works with dracut
> > as well.) The challenges are stored in an extra initramfs. This is
> > required if you want to update the challenge on every use - recompressing
> > the initramfs on every boot is not a good option.
> >   
> 
> Why your initrd cannot simply read this file from /boot itself?

Because just having the files around is easier than handling mount and
umount. My code is run from udev when a key is inserted, I suppose fiddling
with mount will confuse systemd units.
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main(a){char*c=/*    Schoene Gruesse                         */"B?IJj;MEH"
"CX:;",b;for(a/*    Chris           get my mail address:    */=0;b=c[a++];)
putchar(b-1/(/*               gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig    */b/42*2-3)*42);}

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