[BusyBox] Annoying msg

Matt Kraai kraai at alumni.carnegiemellon.edu
Mon Jul 23 18:25:21 UTC 2001


On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 05:08:51PM -0700, Ivan Passos wrote:
> Why do we have the msg "calling exec" every time we execute something 
> on the busybox shell?? Is it just a debug msg?? This is _really_ 
> annoying, and I think it should be removed from the production build 
> (I did comment it out of my local build). Please tell me whether you 
> guys just forgot to remove it, or there is a reason for it to be 
> there. Also, if there is a more elegant way to "disable" this msg 
> (instead of commenting out the code that generates it), I'd appreciate 
> it if you could let me know how to do it.

This was indeed a debugging message left in by mistake.  It has
since been fixed in CVS, and Erik is preparing a new release.  See
[1] for an earlier report of the same problem.

Matt

1. http://busybox.net/lists/busybox/2001-July/004018.html





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