[BusyBox] losetup applet

[Magnus Damm]

You can also find another losetup applet here:

http://www.opensource.se/projects/busybox/

/ magnus

Bernhard Wiedemann wrote:
> 
> Hello dear busy boxers
> 
> I apreciate your work a lot and now want to contribute to it a bit:
> I have added (for my linux bootCD initrd) a *very* minimalistic losetup
> but have not yet figured out how to let it appear in make menuconfig
> (add this please for me)
> patch files attached.
> 
> a many thanks
> Bernhard M. Wiedemann
> _________
> hopefully helpful
> 
> ----- this is for 0.60.2 (ignore if you have fixed it)
> 
> broken shell: export VARI=value
> help does not work
> 
> umount -r /var/mnt
> umount: Cannot open /proc/mounts
> umount: Cannot remount (null) read-only
> umount: /var/mnt: Device or resource busy
> 
> pidof init
> always returns 1 (wrong for initrd)
> and pidof name returns only pid of the last process with that name
> 
> ----------
> ------ this goes for unstable-20020224 version:
> make distclean leaves docs/busybox.pod and a lot ".*.flags" files.
> the new-applet-HOWTO.txt could need a rewrite (e.g. subdir/config.in)
> ------------
> 
> and also some corrections to documentation:
> ? what does tr do with missing [STRING2] ?
> and two minor corrections included in busybox-20020224-bmw.diff
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