How to use the init in the busybox using uclinux

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Sun Mar 25 14:50:05 UTC 2007


On Sunday 25 March 2007, Xuefeng Ren wrote:
> I want to use init in the busybox with uClibc in arm-nommu platform.
> but the uclibc do not support the fork.
> i replace the fork with vfork, the init is not running correctly.
> Does anybody know how to resolve this problem.

the uClinux guys use simpleinit for this reason (and the fact that a BFLT of 
busybox loaded into ram just for init is a waste of resources)

you should use that rather than busybox's init
-mike
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