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 -- http://baruch.siach.name/blog/ ~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= - [email protected] - tel: +972.52.368.4656, http://www.tkos.co.il - _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
