init on uClinux

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 17 May 2006 15:04, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> On 5/17/06, Alexander Krause <alexander.krause at erazor-zone.de> wrote:
> > > How does init work on uClinux? Or does it work? (I'm thinking of fork
> > > v. vfork.)
> >
> > I'm using BB's init with uclib without any trouble since some months now
> > ;-)
>
> It's good to know that it works. Since init calls fork and not vfork,
> on uClinux I'd expect fork to return ENOSYS and init to bail. Who
> knows what magic makes this work?

uClibc on no-mmu systems doesnt even include the fork() symbol so linking 
would fail ...
-mike
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