[BusyBox] Re: static [zcip]

[David Brownell]

On Sunday 17 April 2005 1:25 am, Erik Andersen <andersen at codepoet.org> wrote:

> > >>Summary:                    Patch to zcip applet for arm-elf
> > >>Description: 
> > >>The function called "run", internal to the zcip applet, is not set as
> > >>static. As a consequence, a bug in the arm-elf will link zcip calls to
> > >>"run" to the function defined by the "init" module. zcip relies upon this
> > >>function to call the scripts it needs to set up networking. The fix is
> > >>very simple but I've attached the patch.

Thanks, I've merged that into my copy, which I'll re-post before long.


> > >To me, it seems there are several places which ought to be static.
> 
> Perhaps so, but as to bug 218, there is no zcip applet in BusyBox.
> Must be some vendor local thing...

Well, I posted it to this list last fall some time as an "FYI" and at
least Gumstix has merged it into their distro.

Now that Apple's "may be applicable" patent has expired (last month) I'll
repost it, and you might want to consider merging it.  I'll see about its
IETF status too; I got the impression there was a desire to wait for that
AppleTalk patent expired before finalizing the RFC, to avoid some debates.

- Dave