[BusyBox] Re: Some more busybox issues...

[Erik Andersen]

On Thu Mar 15, 2001 at 11:39:01PM +0100, Andreas Neuhaus wrote:
> 
> - init shows up as /linuxrc in ps and so halt/reboot/powerdown cannot find
> the init process. i have no clue why argv[0]="init"; does not work. btw, all
> other processes spawned by busybox init (i have several /bin/sh) also show
> up as "/linuxrc". is this a "feature" of 2.4.x kernels?

This sounds like a kernel problem.  There is no reason I can think of that this
should not work.  And the thing with the names of the child processes all being
"/linuxrc"... nasty.

> - lash shell expansion is broken:
> /bin # ls m*
> ls: mkdirmknodmoremountmv: No such file or directory

Just fixed by Larry Doolittle. 

> - lash still duplicates environment settings. i'm running a linux 2.4.2
> kernel, booted by syslinux 1.52. it boots in VMWare (virtual machine) and
> contains only uClibc and busybox (latest cvs versions). there always seem to
> be 2 entries for PATH:

Hmm.  I suspicious that this is a uClibc bug.  I'm going to do some tests...

 -Erik

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