Hi Ran,

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 10:02:17AM +0200, Ran Shalit wrote:
> In documentation I find the following:
> "Unlike sysvinit, BusyBox init does not stop processes from respawning
> out of control".
> Can anyone explain what it means ?

When a respawn process exits immediately after startup, the SysV init 
implementation stops respawn for 5 minutes after trying 10 times. Look for 
MAXSPAWN in init.c[1]. This prevents a bad or misconfigured service from 
hogging the system.

Busybox init doesn't do that.

[1] 
http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/sysvinit/sysvinit/trunk/src/init.c?view=markup

baruch

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