/proc/<pid>/cmdline and udhcpcd

Matt Whitlock busybox at mattwhitlock.name
Wed Mar 26 11:48:38 UTC 2014


On Wednesday, 26 March 2014, at 12:46 pm, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> Is it possible to restrain from modifying the arguments for the
> command line?  The problem is that the process watcher used here is
> dependant on having the original/unmodified /proc/<pid>/cmdline.  If
> the watched process dies, the cmdline is used to respawn it.
> Respawning it with an erroneous command line creates a respawn loop.

Couldn't you use the 'init' applet from Busybox to achieve process watching and respawning?


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