[BusyBox] 5 copies of syslogd

Erik Andersen andersen at lineo.com
Tue Jun 27 04:54:10 UTC 2000


On Tue Jun 27, 2000 at 12:19:16AM -0400, Bradley D. LaRonde wrote:
> now, I expect to see two - one for klogd and one for syslogd.
> 
> But my syslogd parents two more syslogds, and one of those parents yet
> another syslogd.
> 
> Is this normal?  Any ideas?

Yes, this is normal. Basically, busybox syslogd used fork to spawn off child
listener processes for new connections.  This accomplished the same thing as
the traditional non-blocking IO approach, but makes the code smaller.

Basically, what you see is syslogd working as expected.

 -Erik

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