On Sunday 06 February 2011 18:43:48 Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Sunday 06 February 2011 17:00, Lauri Kasanen wrote: > > Hi > > > > /etc/mtab is a define, so lets clean up fstab to be one too. > > Those string defines hail from the times when linker was too dumb > to merge identical strings. Now it does that by its own (not perfectly, > but good enough). Therefore the reason for them disappeared. > > Maybe we need to remove them altogether. > > In any case, I don't see the reason why we'd want to add more. >
Hi, one reason for define s is that it allows to setup a test environment where this files are manipulated on a running box without risking to break the real files. It also allows to test codechanges which need root privileges as normal user. I'm for defines. Ciao, Tito _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
