[BusyBox] Trouble with busybox-1.00-rc2 (Follow up: It was vfork's fault)
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Sat Jul 31 21:30:52 UTC 2004
On Friday 30 July 2004 05:04, Νατσάκης Κωνσταντίνος wrote:
> So thats why init (pid=1) was going to the D state i guess..
>
> Why did busybox developers chose to use vfork in this case?
Legacy of ucLinux, which runs on mmu-less systems. It's a hardcoded hack to
support a specific distro that goes in toasters with 2 megs of ram, and
there's probably a more graceful way to handle it.
This was one of my to-do items in the init rewrite I was halfway through when
-rc1 came out. That rewrite has gone on a back burner until after the
release, because it's a new feature and I'm swamped getting Linucon
launched...
Rob
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