[BusyBox] busybox shell ash executing binaries problem

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 08:42, Rietman, Wijnand - SRQ wrote:
> I have got a very weird problem. I am currently evaluating if busybox is
> suitable for one of our embedded products. This product runs a self-made
> linux distribution, but for maintenance purposes I would like to switch to
> busybox. Everything seems to be working fine with busybox, except for one
> important application. This application is being started from the shell and
> I am using busybox's build-in shell ash. The application is talking through
> ttyS2 and ttyS3 to two other devices and is showing a continuously updating
> status on the console. For some reason it is not able to communicate
> anymore through ttyS3 when I use busybox's shell ash. TtyS2 is updating
> just fine.
>
> The application looks like this on the console:
>
>                  1     2     3     4
> =====================================
> device-1   /     1     1     0     1
> device-2       Detector comms failure

How much setup does it do before the first failure to communicate?  (I.E. 
would strace be hideously long before getting to the interesting bits?)

Rob