making "test" an ash built-in

Jason Schoon floydpink at gmail.com
Thu Jun 8 22:06:08 UTC 2006


On 6/8/06, Paul Fox <pgf at brightstareng.com> wrote:
>
> oh, one more thing i forgot to mention:
>
> CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL, which causes applets to be
> found before commands in the filesystem, also causes them to be
> found before shell builtins.  (i consider this a bug.)
>
> if you have it on, you'll never run the "test" or "echo"
> builtin -- you'll run them in applet form -- and you won't get
> the performance gain.
>
> (note it's turned on by "make defconfig".)
>
>
I'm not sure if this was something specific to my environment or not, but I
was unable to get switch_root to work when I had STANDALONE_SHELL enabled.
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