why are init's arguments wiped ?

[Isaac Dunham]

On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 12:21:00AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 29 Jan 2016 21:10, Laurent Bercot wrote:
> > On 29/01/2016 17:50, Nicolas CARRIER wrote:
> > > I quite agree with dietmar, concerning uglyness...
> > 
> >   <shrug> That doesn't change the fact that it's the behaviour of every
> > init binary since 1970 and that you should come with a better reason if
> > you want to change it, especially since it's so easy to accomplish what
> > you want with a little workaround.
> 
> not really.  his proposal makes busybox smaller.  the only reason given
> for making busybox larger is "it makes `ps` 'nicer'".  if there's no real
> technical reason for it and nothing is impacted, then shrinking busybox
> is a no brainer.  at the very least, it makes sense to make it a config
> option that defaults to off.
> 
> this was first changed here, but not really documented:
> https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=e132f4b09e5c9aedaef97f65279e8702633fd425

Looking near that commit, I see that it moved the code in question, but
it seems the origin was instead this commit:

commit 3163821967821518cfa4c4315f775ec5301bb023
Author: Erik Andersen <andersen at codepoet.org>
Date:   Sat Jan 15 22:28:50 2000 +0000

    Sync up busybox with the latest and greatest.  This is not stuff for
    the Embedix release.
     -Erik

Nothing indicates what the reason was. Looking at that commit, it seems
that some of it was from Debian-related work, but debian.org has nada.

HTH,
Isaac Dunham