BusyBox, uClinux, telnetd and shared memory

Ian Oliver lists at foxhill.co.uk
Tue Aug 15 09:06:23 UTC 2006


In article <VA.00001d04.090f273b at foxhill.co.uk>, Ian Oliver wrote:
> am I best minimising 
> memory usage by building a separate BB executable that contains only 
> the telnetd applet?

To again answer my own question, the best answer I've managed to work 
out so far is "yes".

For anything that doesn't run and then immediately exit (such as 
telnetd or a shell) then a separate build is better. Even better for 
the telnetd case might be to use inetd.

Ian






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