[BusyBox] documentation patch and what's missing.

Terje Kvernes terjekv at math.uio.no
Tue Jul 22 20:24:17 UTC 2003


Terje Kvernes <terjekv at math.uio.no> writes:

  [ ... ]
 
  sigh.  an extra space crept in from the tab to spaces conversion
  here and there when sending, and I can't spell "fails".  this patch
  actually works.  sorry about the noise.

diff -ur busybox/miscutils/Config.in busybox-patched/miscutils/Config.in
--- busybox/miscutils/Config.in 2003-07-14 21:36:58.000000000 +0200
+++ busybox-patched/miscutils/Config.in 2003-07-22 21:43:15.103579262 +0200
@@ -37,13 +37,15 @@
        bool "dutmp"
        default n
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         Dump colon seperated utmp information to STDOUT.  IP addresses
+         are given in hex, little endian on x86.
 
 config CONFIG_MAKEDEVS
        bool "makedevs"
        default n
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         The "makedevs" applet lets you easily create ranges of
+         device nodes.
 
 config CONFIG_MT
        bool "mt"
@@ -72,13 +74,14 @@
        bool "update"
        default n
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         Flush filesystem buffers with linux kernels 2.0 and older.
 
 config CONFIG_WATCHDOG
        bool "watchdog"
        default n
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         A simple applet that will write '\0' to its first argument
+         every 30 seconds, returning only when writing fails.
 
 endmenu
 
diff -ur busybox/shell/Config.in busybox-patched/shell/Config.in
--- busybox/shell/Config.in     2003-07-21 00:10:33.000000000 +0200
+++ busybox-patched/shell/Config.in     2003-07-22 21:48:05.970923045 +0200
@@ -80,7 +80,9 @@
        default n
        depends on CONFIG_ASH
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         By enabling this feature, you can use "cmd cmd args" to
+         avoid ash calling the builtin "cmd", thereby making sure
+         that "cmd" is gotten from $PATH.
 
 config CONFIG_ASH_MAIL
        bool "  Check for new mail on interactive shells"

-- 
Terje



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