[BusyBox] still fighting with minit

Glenn McGrath bug1 at iinet.net.au
Thu Mar 25 07:36:09 UTC 2004


On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:43:08 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:

> i'm not in front of the system at the moment, but it's a hacked 
> version of 2.4.22-pre8 that we got from the embedded linux
> vendor we work with.

Erik's patch to fix it made it into 2.4.23, if you have a look at the
kernel init/main.c you should be able to see the difference.


> hmmm ... does that mean that it's not as thoroughly tested as init
> and that it wouldn't be as reliable?

Yes, thats a fair statement, hasnt had much use at all as far as i know,
but minit is a fairly stable project so the busybox port shouldnt be ok.
I did rework the code a bit, but it should be ok.



Glenn



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