[BusyBox-cvs] busybox/sysdeps/linux Config.in,1.1,1.2
Erik Andersen
andersen at codepoet.org
Thu Dec 5 21:13:13 UTC 2002
Update of /var/cvs/busybox/sysdeps/linux
In directory winder:/tmp/cvs-serv18428/sysdeps/linux
Modified Files:
Config.in
Log Message:
Kill the now obsolete docs/Configure.help file, and move all existing
help texts into their respective Config.in file.
-Erik
Index: Config.in
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RCS file: /var/cvs/busybox/sysdeps/linux/Config.in,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -d -r1.1 -r1.2
--- Config.in 5 Dec 2002 08:41:28 -0000 1.1
+++ Config.in 5 Dec 2002 21:12:39 -0000 1.2
@@ -9,7 +9,14 @@
prompt "Buffer allocation policy"
default "Allocate with Malloc"
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ There are 3 ways BusyBox can handle buffer allocations:
+ - Use malloc. This costs code size for the call to xmalloc.
+ - Put them on stack. For some very small machines with limited stack
+ space, this can be deadly. For most folks, this works just fine.
+ - Put them in BSS. This works beautifully for computers with a real
+ MMU (and OS support), but wastes runtime RAM for uCLinux. This
+ behavior was the only one available for BusyBox versions 0.48 and
[...43 lines suppressed...]
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Enable if you want BusyBox to use Unix98 PTY support. If enabled,
+ busybox will use /dev/ptmx for the master side of the pseudoterminal
+ and /dev/pts/<number> for the slave side. Otherwise, BSD style
+ /dev/ttyp<number> will be used. To use this option, you should have
+ devpts or devfs mounted.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
bool "Clean up all memory before exiting (usually not needed)"
default n
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ As a size optimization, busybox by default does not cleanup memory
+ that is dynamically allocated or close files before exiting. This
+ saves space and is usually not needed since the OS will clean up for
+ us. Don't enable this unless you have a really good reason to clean
+ things up manually.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
bool "Support for SUID/SGID handling"
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