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On Monday 30 April 2012 13:16:52 Maxim Kammerer wrote: |
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> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 19:03, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > i don't know what you mean by "OS functions", but the whole point is that |
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> > this code *cannot* execute *any* external program by default. |
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> I meant calling mount(2) directly instead of executing Busybox's |
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> "mount" applet, etc. |
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this was done on purpose to make maintenance much simpler, and to avoid re- |
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implementing non-trivial things like /etc/fstab parsing |
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> First /dev mount attempt in the code is supposed |
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> to use /etc/fstab, but Busybox's mount options are not always |
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> compatible with util-linux mount, so maybe that's not a good idea |
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> anyway. |
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i don't think it's a big deal ... busybox generally aims to be compatible with |
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the utils it replaces, so if there's bugs/missing stuff, file a bug to get it |
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added. |
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-mike |
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