SETUP(2)                            Linux Programmer's Manual                            SETUP(2)



NAME
       setup - setup devices and file systems, mount root file system

SYNOPSIS
       #include 

       _syscall0(int, setup);

       int setup(void);

DESCRIPTION
       setup is called once from within linux/init/main.c.  It calls initialization functions for
       devices and file systems configured into the kernel and then mounts the root file  system.

       No  user process may call setup.  Any user process, even a process with super-user permis-
       sion, will receive EPERM.

RETURN VALUE
       setup always returns -1 for a user process.

ERRORS
       EPERM  Always, for a user process.

CONFORMING TO
       This function is Linux specific, and should  not  be  used  in  programs  intended  to  be
       portable,  or indeed in any programs at all.  Since Linux 2.1.121, no such function exists
       anymore.  The calling sequence varied: it has had a single parameter void *  BIOS  and  at
       other times a single parameter int magic.



Linux 1.2.9                                 1996-05-03                                   SETUP(2)