[BusyBox] ping bug?

Artemio theman at artemio.net
Tue Dec 9 13:37:37 UTC 2003


Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <200312082236.26201.theman at artemio.net> you wrote:
> > In "official" pre3, I didn't have any such problems - I was able to ping
> > all neighbor hosts. But have to use the latest busybox because I need
> > devfs/devfsd to avoid extra kilobytes for the device files.
>
> How many "extra kilobytes for the device files" are you talking about?
>
> A /dev/ directory with 170 entries (more than just a  small  embedded
> system)  will  occupy  only 2 kB of data blocks; add for 170 inodes -
> how much is this?
>
> And how much does your kernel grow when you add devfs support?

:-P

Okay, okay... I might have mistaken. But for my single-floppy distro it was 
important.

Anyway, I was submitting a possible ping bug, was I? :)




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