Random idea...

David Seikel won_fang at yahoo.com.au
Wed Feb 22 03:00:36 UTC 2006


On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:09:24 -0500 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 21 February 2006 2:34 am, David Seikel wrote:
> >
> > I've been wanting to suggest going the other way for some time now.
> > Letting applets access the functionality of other applets through a
> > direct function call to that other applet instead of having to
> > marshal up your command and arguments into a string and going via
> > the shell.
> 
> I'm sensing a theme here... :)
> 
> > Then again, people think I'm crazy for thinking that I can reduce a
> > several minute boot time to several seconds just be converting all
> > those damn boot time shell scripts to C.  Even though I have largely
> > succeeded.
> 
> Crazy doesn't mean wrong...

I'm thinking that when I eventually get around to working on urunlevel
again, I'll try to sneak it into busybox a little bit at a time instead
of throwing it all at you at once like I did last time.  B-)

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Stuff I have no control over could be added after this line.

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