init on uClinux

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 17 May 2006 3:04 pm, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> On 5/17/06, Alexander Krause <alexander.krause at erazor-zone.de> wrote:
> > > How does init work on uClinux? Or does it work? (I'm thinking of fork
> > > v. vfork.)
> >
> > I'm using BB's init with uclib without any trouble since some months now
> > ;-)
>
> It's good to know that it works. Since init calls fork and not vfork,
> on uClinux I'd expect fork to return ENOSYS and init to bail. Who
> knows what magic makes this work?

A patch uClinux applies to BusyBox, I'd expect.

I have a project queued up to change all fork/exec pairs in busybox to 
bb_spawn(), which will also replace bb_fork_daemon_rexec() (which is too ugly 
for words...) and presumably bb_xdaemon() too.

It's a bit down on the todo list.  I've got a co-worker poking me to finish 
the config system update to 2.6.16 (and the related miniconfig work), and 
that's probably the last significant chunk of new development I'm going to 
try to get in before the feature freeze.  (Since problems in the config 
system cause build breaks rather than runtime breaks...)

> Cheers,
> Shaun

Rob
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