[BusyBox] [PATCH] kill error message

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Wed Aug 17 18:37:19 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 17 August 2005 11:24, walter harms wrote:
> busybox 1.0 has about 15 occurence on syslog(%m) *ash* has about 10. It
> would be easy to replace %m with strerror() in syslog. It would add a
> few bytes but improve portability by removing glibc dependency.
>
> Programms that a handled upstream are a problem but perhpas the autor
> will access patches tha replace %m.

Actually we've got the perror functions in libbb that append strerror() to 
whatever you output through them, so it doesn't actually have to add any size 
at all.

But ash has not been busyboxified.

Rob



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