On Tuesday 03 June 2008 17:17, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Bernard Blackham wrote: > > When I switched from udev+udevd to mdev, booting was much faster and it > > shaved a decent amount from the total image size. However, I've recently > > noticed device nodes sometimes disappearing on boot. > > this is a known corner case and will always be there. it's why the kernel > guys have deprecated the hotplug exec mechanism in favor of netlink sockets. > the only real solution is a daemon + netlink. neither of which are desirable > in mdev. everything else is a workaround. feel free to contribute a > mdevd ;). that plus init/other daemons provided by busybox are good examples > of how PIE can be a very very good thing.
Can you chime me in how to build PIE / how it is different from normal executable? I guess there are some restrictions and things to do (e.g. have to pass -fPIE to gcc)? -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
