[BusyBox] Re: init revision 1.170, 1.169

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Fri Sep 13 11:50:05 UTC 2002


On Fri Sep 13, 2002 at 12:59:58PM +0400, Vladimir N. Oleynik wrote:
> Hi, Erik.
> 
> > Patch from Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de> to do
> > automatic child reaping to avoid zombies
> 
> Thanks. ;)

I put it in stable a couple weeks ago, but I'd forgotten to add
it into unstable.  Time to get 0.60.4 released so we can stop
worring about stable/unstable.

> > Eliminate use of obsolete sys_errlist[]
> 
> Busybox have improved style for 
> 
> ("%s", sys_errlist[errno]) -> ("%s", strerror(errno)) -> "%m" ;)
> syslog also call printf format parser.

Either way works, though "%m" is a GNU extension, and is not
supported by all C libraries.

 -Erik

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