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Subject:    Re: [BusyBox] Trouble with busybox-1.00-rc2 (Follow up: It was
From:       Rob Landley <rob () landley ! net>
Date:       2004-07-31 21:30:52
Message-ID: 200407311630.52684.rob () landley ! net
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On Friday 30 July 2004 05:04, Νατσάκης Κωνσταντίνος wrote:

>  So thats why init (pid=1) was going to the D state i guess..
>
>  Why did busybox developers chose to use vfork in this case?

Legacy of ucLinux, which runs on mmu-less systems.  It's a hardcoded hack to 
support a specific distro that goes in toasters with 2 megs of ram, and 
there's probably a more graceful way to handle it.

This was one of my to-do items in the init rewrite I was halfway through when 
-rc1 came out.  That rewrite has gone on a back burner until after the 
release, because it's a new feature and I'm swamped getting Linucon 
launched...

Rob
-- 
www.linucon.org: Linux Expo and Science Fiction Convention
October 8-10, 2004 in Austin Texas.  (I'm the con chair.)



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