telnetd for nommu

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 24 March 2007, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On Friday 23 March 2007 15:29, Meihui Fan wrote:
> > The telnetd.c will not be compiled if enabled on a nommu platform as
> > blackfin.
>
> You NOMMU people are rather hard to find.

how so ?  the next Blackfin release will be using busybox-1.4.2 ...

> Does it actually work? I'm asking because telnetd is using fork()
> in make_new_session() - and that is not supposed to work on NOMMU,
> right? Thus just fixing compilation by nuking xdaemon() is not enough,
> you need to get rid of fork().

correct ... some people leave the fork() symbol in libc.so so users dont 
notice ... they just compile and maybe run one or two things and assume 
everything is kosher

> This leads me to another questions:
> Will it help with NOMMU bug hunting if we will deliberately make
> fork() to fail during compilation?

yes it would
-mike
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