[BusyBox] Improving Our Development Process

Vladimir N. Oleynik dzo at simtreas.ru
Wed Jan 24 16:42:32 UTC 2001


Matt Kraai wrote:
 
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:39:18AM -0500, Gennady Feldman wrote:
> 
> I think this proposal is a much better idea than splitting the
> source across several repositories.  I'd like to make the follow
> suggestions:
> 
>  1) There should be two output options -- one which generates two
>     binaries (one suid and the other not) for the paranoid (at the
>     price of duplicated common code), and another which drops
>     permissions for non-suid processes.
> 
>  2) One Config.h file in the root directory which specifies all
>     the applets, rather than splitting them across directories.
> 
>  3) The functions of utility.c should be split into separate files
>     in a libbusybox subdirectory to get rid of the #ifdef X || Y
>     nastiness that is currently there (and often broken).


WOW!
It would be the best decision. Thank. The sky has heard my prays :)

I only can not understand, why you do not consider my idea with
micro-suid-wrappers and at will one/many binaries.


--w
vodz





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