A novice question - Is it possible to tweak and change busybox on an existing embedded device? To be exact I'm referring to Dlink home router device which has a very limited and stripped down busybox os. Very few linux commands can be executed...
What are your thoughts / experience ? Thanks Shay On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 6:47 PM, Baruch Siach <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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