[BusyBox] Some problems with busybox-1.0.0-pre1

[Eric Spakman]

Erik,

> I have redone the start-stop-daemon option parsing.
> 
<snip>
> You can now build logger w/o needing syslogd.
> 
<snip>

Thank you very much!

> > -Running shell scripts containing more than a "few" lines on busybox 
> > ash generates a segmentation fault: ash memory problems?
> 
> I run lots of comlex shell scripts w/o problems.  Perhaps you
> should submit the script you are having problems with and/or
> an strace or ltrace of this seg fault...
> 
I had e-mail contact with vodz about this issue. 
We have this problem with "shorewall" (http://www.shorewall.net/), 
which runs perfectly with a stand-alone ash/dash shell. But runs slow 
and give segmentation faults with busybox ash. The shorewall scripts 
are too big to do some debugging on it according to vodz, so a friend 
of mine is trying to make a smaller script which hit the same 
problems in bb ash (I'm very bad with shell scripting myself). 

> > -Message: "mknod: null: File exists" while creating /dev files (mknod 
> > null c 1 3)
> 
> That is exactly what is supposed to happen when the /dev/null
> already exists....
> 
The problem is, /dev/null don't exist. And I never saw this message 
with busybox 0.60.5 with the same /dev generating scripts.

> > -Message: "umount: bb_xasprintf: Read-only file system" while 
> > halting/rebooting 
> 
> Sounds like you are using uClibc and have messed up the
> permissions on /dev/null
> 
Correct, I'm using uClibc and I will double check the permissions.

The "umount: Read-only filesystem" is not the problem (I think), but 
the part "bb_xasprintf" doesn't seem to belong there.

> > #su
> > this applet requiere priviliged rights 
> 
> You did not make busybox setuid root, therefore the su
> test was not able to work...
> 
AFAIK busybox is setuid root, but I will double check.

> > -You can't choose ifupdown and iproute2 compatability, without also 
> > choosing busybox iproute2. This way it's not possible to use the full 
> > blown iproute2 programs with busybox ifupdown.
> 
> Fair enough.  Fixed.
> 
Thanks again.

Regards,
Eric Spakman