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| -rw-r--r-- | Config.in | 80 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | archival/Config.in | 46 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | coreutils/Config.in | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | debianutils/Config.in | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | e2fsprogs/Config.in | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/Config.in | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | editors/Config.in | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | findutils/Config.in | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Config.in | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | libbb/Config.in | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | loginutils/Config.in | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | miscutils/Config.in | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | modutils/Config.in | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | networking/Config.in | 48 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | procps/Config.in | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | shell/Config.in | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sysklogd/Config.in | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | util-linux/Config.in | 129 |
18 files changed, 236 insertions, 220 deletions
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ choice There are 3 ways BusyBox can handle buffer allocations: - Use malloc. This costs code size for the call to xmalloc. - Put them on stack. For some very small machines with limited stack - space, this can be deadly. For most folks, this works just fine. + space, this can be deadly. For most folks, this works just fine. - Put them in BSS. This works beautifully for computers with a real MMU (and OS support), but wastes runtime RAM for uCLinux. This behavior was the only one available for BusyBox versions 0.48 and @@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ config FEATURE_VERBOSE_USAGE select SHOW_USAGE help All BusyBox applets will show more verbose help messages when - busybox is invoked with --help. This will add a lot of text to the - busybox binary. In the default configuration, this will add about + busybox is invoked with --help. This will add a lot of text to the + busybox binary. In the default configuration, this will add about 13k, but it can add much more depending on your configuration. config FEATURE_COMPRESS_USAGE @@ -86,15 +86,15 @@ config FEATURE_COMPRESS_USAGE If you have a really tiny busybox with few applets enabled (and bunzip2 isn't one of them), the overhead of the decompressor might - be noticeable. Also, if you run executables directly from ROM - and have very little memory, this might not be a win. Otherwise, + be noticeable. Also, if you run executables directly from ROM + and have very little memory, this might not be a win. Otherwise, you probably want this. config FEATURE_INSTALLER bool "Support --install [-s] to install applet links at runtime" default n help - Enable 'busybox --install [-s]' support. This will allow you to use + Enable 'busybox --install [-s]' support. This will allow you to use busybox at runtime to create hard links or symlinks for all the applets that are compiled into busybox. @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ config FEATURE_DEVPTS help Enable if you want BusyBox to use Unix98 PTY support. If enabled, busybox will use /dev/ptmx for the master side of the pseudoterminal - and /dev/pts/<number> for the slave side. Otherwise, BSD style + and /dev/pts/<number> for the slave side. Otherwise, BSD style /dev/ttyp<number> will be used. To use this option, you should have devpts mounted. @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ config FEATURE_CLEAN_UP default n help As a size optimization, busybox normally exits without explicitly - freeing dynamically allocated memory or closing files. This saves + freeing dynamically allocated memory or closing files. This saves space since the OS will clean up for us, but it can confuse debuggers like valgrind, which report tons of memory and resource leaks. @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ config FEATURE_SUID If you're really paranoid and don't want to do this, build two busybox binaries with different applets in them (and the appropriate symlinks pointing to each binary), and only set the suid bit on the - one that needs it. The applets currently marked to need the suid bit + one that needs it. The applets currently marked to need the suid bit are login, passwd, su, ping, traceroute, crontab, dnsd, ipcrm, ipcs, and vlock. @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ config FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG depends on FEATURE_SUID help Allow the SUID / SGID state of an applet to be determined at runtime - by checking /etc/busybox.conf. (This is sort of a poor man's sudo.) + by checking /etc/busybox.conf. (This is sort of a poor man's sudo.) The format of this file is as follows: <applet> = [Ssx-][Ssx-][x-] (<username>|<uid>).(<groupname>|<gid>) @@ -170,11 +170,12 @@ config FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG An example might help: [SUID] - su = ssx root.0 # applet su can be run by anyone and runs with euid=0/egid=0 + su = ssx root.0 # applet su can be run by anyone and runs with + # euid=0/egid=0 su = ssx # exactly the same - mount = sx- root.disk # applet mount can be run by root and members of group disk - # and runs with euid=0 + mount = sx- root.disk # applet mount can be run by root and members + # of group disk and runs with euid=0 cp = --- # disable applet cp for everyone @@ -193,14 +194,15 @@ config FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG_QUIET default y depends on FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG help - /etc/busybox.conf should be readable by the user needing the SUID, check - this option to avoid users to be notified about missing permissions. + /etc/busybox.conf should be readable by the user needing the SUID, + check this option to avoid users to be notified about missing + permissions. config SELINUX bool "Support NSA Security Enhanced Linux" default n help - Enable support for SELinux in applets ls, ps, and id. Also provide + Enable support for SELinux in applets ls, ps, and id. Also provide the option of compiling in SELinux applets. If you do not have a complete SELinux userland installed, this stuff @@ -235,9 +237,9 @@ config BUSYBOX_EXEC_PATH default "/proc/self/exe" help When Busybox applets need to run other busybox applets, BusyBox - sometimes needs to exec() itself. When the /proc filesystem is + sometimes needs to exec() itself. When the /proc filesystem is mounted, /proc/self/exe always points to the currently running - executable. If you haven't got /proc, set this to wherever you + executable. If you haven't got /proc, set this to wherever you want to run BusyBox from. # These are auto-selected by other options @@ -304,7 +306,7 @@ config BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX busybox code. This feature allows every applet to be built as a tiny - separate executable. Enabling it for "one big busybox binary" + separate executable. Enabling it for "one big busybox binary" approach serves no purpose and increases code size. You should almost certainly say "no" to this. @@ -321,7 +323,7 @@ config BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX ### standalone application which uses libbusybox say 'Y'. ### ### Note: libbusybox is GPL, not LGPL, and exports no stable API that -### might act as a copyright barrier. We can and will modify the +### might act as a copyright barrier. We can and will modify the ### exported function set between releases (even minor version number ### changes), and happily break out-of-tree features. ### @@ -379,11 +381,11 @@ config LFS select FDISK_SUPPORT_LARGE_DISKS help If you want to build BusyBox with large file support, then enable - this option. This will have no effect if your kernel or your C - library lacks large file support for large files. Some of the + this option. This will have no effect if your kernel or your C + library lacks large file support for large files. Some of the programs that can benefit from large file support include dd, gzip, - cp, mount, tar, and many others. If you want to access files larger - than 2 Gigabytes, enable this option. Otherwise, leave it set to 'N'. + cp, mount, tar, and many others. If you want to access files larger + than 2 Gigabytes, enable this option. Otherwise, leave it set to 'N'. config CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX string "Cross Compiler prefix" @@ -404,8 +406,8 @@ config DEBUG default n help Say Y here if you wish to examine BusyBox internals while applets are - running. This increases the size of the binary considerably, and - should only be used when doing development. If you are doing + running. This increases the size of the binary considerably, and + should only be used when doing development. If you are doing development and want to debug BusyBox, answer Y. Most people should answer N. @@ -417,7 +419,7 @@ config DEBUG_PESSIMIZE help The compiler's optimization of source code can eliminate and reorder code, resulting in an executable that's hard to understand when - stepping through it with a debugger. This switches it off, resulting + stepping through it with a debugger. This switches it off, resulting in a much bigger executable that more closely matches the source code. @@ -434,27 +436,28 @@ choice default NO_DEBUG_LIB help Using an additional debugging library will make BusyBox become - considerable larger and will cause it to run more slowly. You + considerable larger and will cause it to run more slowly. You should always leave this option disabled for production use. dmalloc support: ---------------- This enables compiling with dmalloc ( http://dmalloc.com/ ) which is an excellent public domain mem leak and malloc problem - detector. To enable dmalloc, before running busybox you will + detector. To enable dmalloc, before running busybox you will want to properly set your environment, for example: export DMALLOC_OPTIONS=debug=0x34f47d83,inter=100,log=logfile The 'debug=' value is generated using the following command - dmalloc -p log-stats -p log-non-free -p log-bad-space -p log-elapsed-time \ - -p check-fence -p check-heap -p check-lists -p check-blank \ - -p check-funcs -p realloc-copy -p allow-free-null + dmalloc -p log-stats -p log-non-free -p log-bad-space \ + -p log-elapsed-time -p check-fence -p check-heap \ + -p check-lists -p check-blank -p check-funcs -p realloc-copy \ + -p allow-free-null Electric-fence support: ----------------------- - This enables compiling with Electric-fence support. Electric + This enables compiling with Electric-fence support. Electric fence is another very useful malloc debugging library which uses your computer's virtual memory hardware to detect illegal memory - accesses. This support will make BusyBox be considerable larger + accesses. This support will make BusyBox be considerable larger and run slower, so you should leave this option disabled unless you are hunting a hard to find memory problem. @@ -476,7 +479,7 @@ config INCLUDE_SUSv2 help This option will enable backwards compatibility with SuSv2, specifically, old-style numeric options ('command -1 <file>') - will be supported in head, tail, and fold. (Note: should + will be supported in head, tail, and fold. (Note: should affect renice too.) config PARSE @@ -509,8 +512,8 @@ config INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS config INSTALL_APPLET_HARDLINKS bool "as hard-links" help - Install applets as hard-links to the busybox binary. This might count - on a filesystem with few inodes. + Install applets as hard-links to the busybox binary. This might + count on a filesystem with few inodes. config INSTALL_APPLET_SCRIPT_WRAPPERS bool "as script wrappers" @@ -546,7 +549,8 @@ config INSTALL_SH_APPLET_HARDLINK config INSTALL_SH_APPLET_SCRIPT_WRAPPER bool "as script wrapper" help - Install /bin/sh applet as script wrapper that call the busybox binary. + Install /bin/sh applet as script wrapper that call the busybox + binary. endchoice diff --git a/archival/Config.in b/archival/Config.in index 5d5087b..b26be64 100644 --- a/archival/Config.in +++ b/archival/Config.in @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ config AR default n help ar is an archival utility program used to create, modify, and - extract contents from archives. An archive is a single file holding + extract contents from archives. An archive is a single file holding a collection of other files in a structure that makes it possible to retrieve the original individual files (called archive members). The original files' contents, mode (permissions), timestamp, owner, @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ config FEATURE_AR_LONG_FILENAMES default n depends on AR help - By default the ar format can only store the first 15 characters of the - filename, this option removes that limitation. + By default the ar format can only store the first 15 characters of + the filename, this option removes that limitation. It supports the GNU ar long filename method which moves multiple long filenames into a the data section of a new ar entry. @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ config BUNZIP2 default n help bunzip2 is a compression utility using the Burrows-Wheeler block - sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression + sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors. @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ config BZIP2 default n help bzip2 is a compression utility using the Burrows-Wheeler block - sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression + sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors. @@ -68,15 +68,15 @@ config CPIO bool "cpio" default n help - cpio is an archival utility program used to create, modify, and extract - contents from archives. + cpio is an archival utility program used to create, modify, and + extract contents from archives. cpio has 110 bytes of overheads for every stored file. This implementation of cpio can extract cpio archives created in the "newc" or "crc" format, it cannot create or modify them. - Unless you have a specific application which requires cpio, you should - probably say N here. + Unless you have a specific application which requires cpio, you + should probably say N here. config FEATURE_CPIO_O bool "Support for archive creation" @@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ config DPKG_DEB bool "dpkg_deb" default n help - dpkg-deb packs, unpacks and provides information about Debian archives. + dpkg-deb packs, unpacks and provides information about Debian + archives. This implementation of dpkg-deb cannot pack archives. @@ -112,9 +113,10 @@ config FEATURE_DPKG_DEB_EXTRACT_ONLY default n depends on DPKG_DEB help - This reduces dpkg-deb to the equivalent of "ar -p <deb> data.tar.gz | tar -zx". - However it saves space as none of the extra dpkg-deb, ar or tar options are - needed, they are linked to internally. + This reduces dpkg-deb to the equivalent of + "ar -p <deb> data.tar.gz | tar -zx". However it saves space as none + of the extra dpkg-deb, ar or tar options are needed, they are linked + to internally. config GUNZIP bool "gunzip" @@ -240,8 +242,9 @@ config FEATURE_TAR_OLDSUN_COMPATIBILITY depends on TAR help This option is required to unpack archives created by some old - version of Sun's tar (it was calculating checksum using signed arithmetic). - It is said to be fixed in newer Sun tar, but "old" tarballs still exist. + version of Sun's tar (it was calculating checksum using signed + arithmetic). It is said to be fixed in newer Sun tar, but "old" + tarballs still exist. config FEATURE_TAR_GNU_EXTENSIONS bool "Support for GNU tar extensions (long filenames)" @@ -281,7 +284,7 @@ config UNLZMA default n help unlzma is a compression utility using the Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain - compression algorithm, and range coding. Compression + compression algorithm, and range coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved by the bzip2 compressors. @@ -322,18 +325,19 @@ config FEATURE_DEB_TAR_GZ help This is the default compression method inside the debian ar file. - If you want compatibility with standard .deb's you should say yes here. + If you want compatibility with standard .deb's you should say yes + here. config FEATURE_DEB_TAR_BZ2 bool "bzip2 debian packages" default n depends on DPKG || DPKG_DEB help - This allows dpkg and dpkg-deb to extract deb's that are compressed internally - with bzip2 instead of gzip. + This allows dpkg and dpkg-deb to extract deb's that are compressed + internally with bzip2 instead of gzip. - You only want this if you are creating your own custom debian packages that - use an internal control.tar.bz2 or data.tar.bz2. + You only want this if you are creating your own custom debian + packages that use an internal control.tar.bz2 or data.tar.bz2. config FEATURE_DEB_TAR_LZMA bool "lzma debian packages" diff --git a/coreutils/Config.in b/coreutils/Config.in index b01980d..4138390 100644 --- a/coreutils/Config.in +++ b/coreutils/Config.in @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ config BASENAME default n help basename is used to strip the directory and suffix from filenames, - leaving just the filename itself. Enable this option if you wish + leaving just the filename itself. Enable this option if you wish to enable the 'basename' utility. config CAL @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ config CAT default n help cat is used to concatenate files and print them to the standard - output. Enable this option if you wish to enable the 'cat' utility. + output. Enable this option if you wish to enable the 'cat' utility. config CATV bool "catv" @@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ config FEATURE_DD_SIGNAL_HANDLING print to standard error the number of records read and written so far, then to resume copying. - $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$! $ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid + $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& + $ pid=$! kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid 10899206+0 records in 10899206+0 records out config FEATURE_DD_IBS_OBS @@ -232,7 +233,7 @@ config EXPR_MATH_SUPPORT_64 default n depends on EXPR help - Enable 64-bit math support in the expr applet. This will make + Enable 64-bit math support in the expr applet. This will make the applet slightly larger, but will allow computation with very large numbers. @@ -548,8 +549,8 @@ config FEATURE_SORT_BIG depends on SORT help Without this, sort only supports -r, -u, and an integer version - of -n. Selecting this adds sort keys, floating point support, and - more. This adds a little over 3k to a nonstatic build on x86. + of -n. Selecting this adds sort keys, floating point support, and + more. This adds a little over 3k to a nonstatic build on x86. The SuSv3 sort standard is available at: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/sort.html @@ -581,7 +582,7 @@ config FEATURE_STAT_FORMAT depends on STAT help Without this, stat will not support the '-c format' option where - users can pass a custom format string for output. This adds about + users can pass a custom format string for output. This adds about 7k to a nonstatic build on amd64. config STTY @@ -642,7 +643,7 @@ config TEST default n help test is used to check file types and compare values, - returning an appropriate exit code. The bash shell + returning an appropriate exit code. The bash shell has test built in, ash can build it in optionally. config FEATURE_TEST_64 @@ -753,7 +754,7 @@ config FEATURE_WC_LARGE default n depends on WC help - Use "unsigned long long" in wc for count variables + Use "unsigned long long" in wc for count variables. config WHO bool "who" diff --git a/debianutils/Config.in b/debianutils/Config.in index f1b73b6..4ed00dd 100644 --- a/debianutils/Config.in +++ b/debianutils/Config.in @@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ config RUN_PARTS It is useful to set up a directory like cron.daily, where you need to execute all the scripts in that directory. - In this implementation of run-parts some features (such as report mode) - are not implemented. + In this implementation of run-parts some features (such as report + mode) are not implemented. Unless you know that run-parts is used in some of your scripts you can safely say N here. diff --git a/e2fsprogs/Config.in b/e2fsprogs/Config.in index fe8d031..9a0088a 100644 --- a/e2fsprogs/Config.in +++ b/e2fsprogs/Config.in @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ config LSATTR ### bool "mke2fs" ### default n ### help -### mke2fs is used to create an ext2/ext3 filesystem. The normal compat +### mke2fs is used to create an ext2/ext3 filesystem. The normal compat ### symlinks 'mkfs.ext2' and 'mkfs.ext3' are also provided. ### config TUNE2FS diff --git a/e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/Config.in b/e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/Config.in index 0062b2f..5990f55 100644 --- a/e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/Config.in +++ b/e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/Config.in @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ config MKE2FS bool "mke2fs" default n help - mke2fs is used to create an ext2/ext3 filesystem. The normal compat + mke2fs is used to create an ext2/ext3 filesystem. The normal compat symlinks 'mkfs.ext2' and 'mkfs.ext3' are also provided. config TUNE2FS diff --git a/editors/Config.in b/editors/Config.in index 58959aa..27426bc 100644 --- a/editors/Config.in +++ b/editors/Config.in @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ config AWK bool "awk" default n help - Awk is used as a pattern scanning and processing language. This is + Awk is used as a pattern scanning and processing language. This is the BusyBox implementation of that programming language. config FEATURE_AWK_MATH @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ config ED default n help The original 1970's Unix text editor, from the days of teletypes. - Small, simple, evil. Part of SUSv3. If you're not already using + Small, simple, evil. Part of SUSv3. If you're not already using this, you don't need it. config PATCH @@ -84,9 +84,9 @@ config VI bool "vi" default n help - 'vi' is a text editor. More specifically, it is the One True - text editor <grin>. It does, however, have a rather steep - learning curve. If you are not already comfortable with 'vi' + 'vi' is a text editor. More specifically, it is the One True + text editor <grin>. It does, however, have a rather steep + learning curve. If you are not already comfortable with 'vi' you may wish to use something else. config FEATURE_VI_MAX_LEN @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ config FEATURE_VI_COLON default y depends on VI help - Enable a limited set of colon commands for vi. This does not + Enable a limited set of colon commands for vi. This does not provide an "ex" mode. config FEATURE_VI_YANKMARK @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ config FEATURE_VI_USE_SIGNALS default y depends on VI help - Selecting this option will make busybox vi signal aware. This will + Selecting this option will make busybox vi signal aware. This will make busybox vi support SIGWINCH to deal with Window Changes, catch Ctrl-Z and Ctrl-C and alarms. diff --git a/findutils/Config.in b/findutils/Config.in index a830394..9bb73d3 100644 --- a/findutils/Config.in +++ b/findutils/Config.in @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ config FEATURE_FIND_PRINT0 depends on FIND help Causes output names to be separated by a null character - rather than a newline. This allows names that contain + rather than a newline. This allows names that contain newlines and other whitespace to be more easily interpreted by other programs. @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ config FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS default y depends on GREP help - Enabled support for extended regular expressions. Extended + Enabled support for extended regular expressions. Extended regular expressions allow for alternation (foo|bar), grouping, and various repetition operators. diff --git a/init/Config.in b/init/Config.in index a1684d4..c26c4c5 100644 --- a/init/Config.in +++ b/init/Config.in @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ config FEATURE_INIT_COREDUMPS help If this option is enabled and the file /.init_enable_core exists, then init will call setrlimit() to allow unlimited - core file sizes. If this option is disabled, processes + core file sizes. If this option is disabled, processes will not generate any core files. @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ config FEATURE_INITRD default y depends on INIT help - Legacy support for running init under the old-style initrd. Allows + Legacy support for running init under the old-style initrd. Allows the name linuxrc to act as init, and it doesn't assume init is PID 1. This does not apply to initramfs, which runs /init as PID 1 and @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ config MESG bool "mesg" default n help - Mesg controls access to your terminal by others. It is typically + Mesg controls access to your terminal by others. It is typically used to allow or disallow other users to write to your terminal endmenu diff --git a/libbb/Config.in b/libbb/Config.in index 5bf0d2e..f5b804f 100644 --- a/libbb/Config.in +++ b/libbb/Config.in @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ config FEATURE_EDITING_VI default n depends on FEATURE_EDITING help - Enable vi-style line editing. In shells, this mode can be + Enable vi-style line editing. In shells, this mode can be turned on and off with "set -o vi" and "set +o vi". config FEATURE_EDITING_HISTORY diff --git a/loginutils/Config.in b/loginutils/Config.in index d3ad400..aca85a1 100644 --- a/loginutils/Config.in +++ b/loginutils/Config.in @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ config FEATURE_SHADOWPASSWDS bool "Support for shadow passwords" default n help - Build support for shadow password in /etc/shadow. This file is only + Build support for shadow password in /etc/shadow. This file is only readable by root and thus the encrypted passwords are no longer publicly readable. @@ -18,17 +18,17 @@ config USE_BB_PWD_GRP default n help If you leave this disabled, busybox will use the system's password - and group functions. And if you are using the GNU C library + and group functions. And if you are using the GNU C library (glibc), you will then need to install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required /lib/libnss_* libraries in - order for the password and group functions to work. This generally + order for the password and group functions to work. This generally makes your embedded system quite a bit larger. Enabling this option will cause busybox to directly access the system's /etc/password, /etc/group files (and your system will be smaller, and I will get fewer emails asking about how glibc NSS - works). When this option is enabled, you will not be able to use - PAM to access remote LDAP password servers and whatnot. And if you + works). When this option is enabled, you will not be able to use + PAM to access remote LDAP password servers and whatnot. And if you want hostname resolution to work with glibc, you still need the /lib/libnss_* libraries. @@ -44,16 +44,16 @@ config USE_BB_SHADOW depends on USE_BB_PWD_GRP && FEATURE_SHADOWPASSWDS help If you leave this disabled, busybox will use the system's shadow - password handling functions. And if you are using the GNU C library + password handling functions. And if you are using the GNU C library (glibc), you will then need to install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required /lib/libnss_* libraries in - order for the shadow password functions to work. This generally + order for the shadow password functions to work. This generally makes your embedded system quite a bit larger. Enabling this option will cause busybox to directly access the - system's /etc/shadow file when handling shadow passwords. This + system's /etc/shadow file when handling shadow passwords. This makes your system smaller (and I will get fewer emails asking about - how glibc NSS works). When this option is enabled, you will not be + how glibc NSS works). When this option is enabled, you will not be able to use PAM to access shadow passwords from remote LDAP password servers and whatnot. @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ config USE_BB_CRYPT standard C library functions. If you leave this disabled, busybox will use the system's - crypt functions. Most C libraries use large (~70k) + crypt functions. Most C libraries use large (~70k) static buffers there, and also combine them with more general DES encryption/decryption. @@ -211,9 +211,9 @@ config PASSWD select FEATURE_SUID select FEATURE_SYSLOG help - passwd changes passwords for user and group accounts. A normal user + passwd changes passwords for user and group accounts. A normal user may only change the password for his/her own account, the super user - may change the password for any account. The administrator of a group + may change the password for any account. The administrator of a group may change the password for the group. Note that Busybox binary must be setuid root for this applet to diff --git a/miscutils/Config.in b/miscutils/Config.in index 2a80e61..0c80ae6 100644 --- a/miscutils/Config.in +++ b/miscutils/Config.in @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ config CROND help Crond is a background daemon that parses individual crontab files and executes commands on behalf of the users in question. - This is a port of dcron from slackware. It uses files of the + This is a port of dcron from slackware. It uses files of the format /var/spool/cron/crontabs/<username> files, for example: $ cat /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root # Run daily cron jobs at 4:40 every day: @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ config CRONTAB default n select FEATURE_SUID help - Crontab manipulates the crontab for a particular user. Only + Crontab manipulates the crontab for a particular user. Only the superuser may specify a different user and/or crontab directory. Note that Busybox binary must be setuid root for this applet to work properly. @@ -185,14 +185,14 @@ config FEATURE_DEVFS This is obsolete and will be going away at the end of 2008.. This tells busybox to look for names like /dev/loop/0 instead of - /dev/loop0. If your /dev directory has normal names instead of + /dev/loop0. If your /dev directory has normal names instead of devfs names, you don't want this. config EJECT bool "eject" default n help - Used to eject cdroms. (defaults to /dev/cdrom) + Used to eject cdroms. (defaults to /dev/cdrom) config FEATURE_EJECT_SCSI bool "SCSI support" @@ -311,8 +311,8 @@ config HDPARM bool "hdparm" default n help - Get/Set hard drive parameters. Primarily intended for ATA - drives. Adds about 13k (or around 30k if you enable the + Get/Set hard drive parameters. Primarily intended for ATA + drives. Adds about 13k (or around 30k if you enable the FEATURE_HDPARM_GET_IDENTITY option).... config FEATURE_HDPARM_GET_IDENTITY @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ config FEATURE_HDPARM_HDIO_TRISTATE_HWIF depends on HDPARM help Enables the 'hdparm -x' option to tristate device for hotswap, - and the '-b' option to get/set bus state. This is dangerous + and the '-b' option to get/set bus state. This is dangerous stuff, so you should probably say N. config FEATURE_HDPARM_HDIO_GETSET_DMA @@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ config MT bool "mt" default n help - mt is used to control tape devices. You can use the mt utility + mt is used to control tape devices. You can use the mt utility to advance or rewind a tape past a specified number of archive files on the tape. @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ config READAHEAD This applet just calls the readahead(2) system call on each file. It is mainly useful in system startup scripts to preload files - or executables before they are used. When used at the right time + or executables before they are used. When used at the right time (in particular when a CPU bound process is running) it can significantly speed up system startup. @@ -514,8 +514,8 @@ config WATCHDOG default n help The watchdog utility is used with hardware or software watchdog - device drivers. It opens the specified watchdog device special file - and periodically writes a magic character to the device. If the + device drivers. It opens the specified watchdog device special file + and periodically writes a magic character to the device. If the watchdog applet ever fails to write the magic character within a certain amount of time, the watchdog device assumes the system has hung, and will cause the hardware to reboot. diff --git a/modutils/Config.in b/modutils/Config.in index 453b195..f76a082 100644 --- a/modutils/Config.in +++ b/modutils/Config.in @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ config FEATURE_INSMOD_VERSION_CHECKING default n depends on INSMOD && FEATURE_2_4_MODULES help - Support checking of versions for modules. This is used to + Support checking of versions for modules. This is used to ensure that the kernel and module are made for each other. config FEATURE_INSMOD_KSYMOOPS_SYMBOLS @@ -113,9 +113,9 @@ config FEATURE_INSMOD_KSYMOOPS_SYMBOLS depends on INSMOD && FEATURE_2_4_MODULES help By adding module symbols to the kernel symbol table, Oops messages - occuring within kernel modules can be properly debugged. By enabling + occuring within kernel modules can be properly debugged. By enabling this feature, module symbols will always be added to the kernel symbol - table for properly debugging support. If you are not interested in + table for properly debugging support. If you are not interested in Oops messages from kernel modules, say N. config FEATURE_INSMOD_LOADINKMEM @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ config FEATURE_INSMOD_LOAD_MAP_FULL depends on FEATURE_INSMOD_LOAD_MAP help Without this option, -m will only output section - load map. With this option, -m will also output + load map. With this option, -m will also output symbols load map. config RMMOD @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ config FEATURE_CHECK_TAINTED_MODULE default y depends on INSMOD || LSMOD help - Support checking for tainted modules. These are usually binary + Support checking for tainted modules. These are usually binary only modules that will make the linux-kernel list ignore your support request. This option is required to support GPLONLY modules. diff --git a/networking/Config.in b/networking/Config.in index fb6988b..5f38062 100644 --- a/networking/Config.in +++ b/networking/Config.in @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ config FEATURE_HTTPD_ENCODE_URL_STR depends on HTTPD help This option allows html encoding of arbitrary strings for display - by the browser. Output goes to stdout. + by the browser. Output goes to stdout. For example, httpd -e "<Hello World>" produces "<Hello World>". @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ config FEATURE_IFCONFIG_SLIP default n depends on IFCONFIG help - Allow "keepalive" and "outfill" support for SLIP. If you're not + Allow "keepalive" and "outfill" support for SLIP. If you're not planning on using serial lines, leave this unchecked. config FEATURE_IFCONFIG_MEMSTART_IOADDR_IRQ @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ config FEATURE_IFCONFIG_HW depends on IFCONFIG help Set the hardware address of this interface, if the device driver - supports this operation. Currently, we only support the 'ether' + supports this operation. Currently, we only support the 'ether' class. config FEATURE_IFCONFIG_BROADCAST_PLUS @@ -303,15 +303,15 @@ config IFUPDOWN bool "ifupdown" default n help - Activate or deactivate the specified interfaces. This applet makes + Activate or deactivate the specified interfaces. This applet makes use of either "ifconfig" and "route" or the "ip" command to actually - configure network interfaces. Therefore, you will probably also want + configure network interfaces. Therefore, you will probably also want to enable either IFCONFIG and ROUTE, or enable - FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IP and the various IP options. Of + FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IP and the various IP options. Of course you could use non-busybox versions of these programs, so against my better judgement (since this will surely result in plenty of support questions on the mailing list), I do not force you to - enable these additional options. It is up to you to supply either + enable these additional options. It is up to you to supply either "ifconfig", "route" and "run-parts" or the "ip" command, either via busybox or via standalone utilities. @@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ config IP default n help The "ip" applet is a TCP/IP interface configuration and routing - utility. You generally don't need "ip" to use busybox with + utility. You generally don't need "ip" to use busybox with TCP/IP. config FEATURE_IP_ADDRESS @@ -558,7 +558,8 @@ config FEATURE_IPCALC_FANCY default y depends on IPCALC help - Adds the options hostname, prefix and silent to the output of "ipcalc". + Adds the options hostname, prefix and silent to the output of + "ipcalc". config FEATURE_IPCALC_LONG_OPTIONS bool "Enable long options" @@ -688,7 +689,8 @@ config SLATTACH bool "slattach" default n help - slattach is a small utility to attach network interfaces to serial lines. + slattach is a small utility to attach network interfaces to serial + lines. config TELNET bool "telnet" @@ -703,7 +705,7 @@ config FEATURE_TELNET_TTYPE depends on TELNET help Setting this option will forward the TERM environment variable to the - remote host you are connecting to. This is useful to make sure that + remote host you are connecting to. This is useful to make sure that things like ANSI colors and other control sequences behave. config FEATURE_TELNET_AUTOLOGIN @@ -722,9 +724,9 @@ config TELNETD select FEATURE_SYSLOG help A daemon for the TELNET protocol, allowing you to log onto the host - running the daemon. Please keep in mind that the TELNET protocol - sends passwords in plain text. If you can't afford the space for an - SSH daemon and you trust your network, you may say 'y' here. As a + running the daemon. Please keep in mind that the TELNET protocol + sends passwords in plain text. If you can't afford the space for an + SSH daemon and you trust your network, you may say 'y' here. As a more secure alternative, you should seriously consider installing the very small Dropbear SSH daemon instead: http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html @@ -750,7 +752,7 @@ config TELNETD mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts You need to be sure that Busybox has LOGIN and - FEATURE_SUID enabled. And finally, you should make + FEATURE_SUID enabled. And finally, you should make certain that Busybox has been installed setuid root: chown root.root /bin/busybox @@ -770,7 +772,7 @@ config TFTP bool "tftp" default n help - This enables the Trivial File Transfer Protocol client program. TFTP + This enables the Trivial File Transfer Protocol client program. TFTP is usually used for simple, small transfers such as a root image for a network-enabled bootloader. @@ -789,7 +791,7 @@ config FEATURE_TFTP_GET default y depends on TFTP || TFTPD help - Add support for the GET command within the TFTP client. This allows + Add support for the GET command within the TFTP client. This allows a client to retrieve a file from a TFTP server. Also enable upload support in tftpd, if tftpd is selected. @@ -798,7 +800,7 @@ config FEATURE_TFTP_PUT default y depends on TFTP || TFTPD help - Add support for the PUT command within the TFTP client. This allows + Add support for the PUT command within the TFTP client. This allows a client to transfer a file to a TFTP server. Also enable download support in tftpd, if tftpd is selected. @@ -815,7 +817,7 @@ config DEBUG_TFTP default n depends on TFTP help - Enable debug settings for tftp. This is useful if you're running + Enable debug settings for tftp. This is useful if you're running into problems with tftp as the protocol doesn't help you much when you run into problems. @@ -830,7 +832,7 @@ config FEATURE_TRACEROUTE_VERBOSE default n depends on TRACEROUTE help - Add some verbosity to traceroute. This includes amongst other things + Add some verbosity to traceroute. This includes amongst other things hostnames and ICMP response types. config FEATURE_TRACEROUTE_SOURCE_ROUTE @@ -900,12 +902,14 @@ config TCPSVD bool "tcpsvd" default n help - tcpsvd listens on a TCP port and runs a program for each new connection + tcpsvd listens on a TCP port and runs a program for each new + connection. config UDPSVD bool "udpsvd" default n help - udpsvd listens on an UDP port and runs a program for each new connection + udpsvd listens on an UDP port and runs a program for each new + connection. endmenu diff --git a/procps/Config.in b/procps/Config.in index 585893e..642ebd0 100644 --- a/procps/Config.in +++ b/procps/Config.in @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ config FUSER default n help fuser lists all PIDs (Process IDs) that currently have a given - file open. fuser can also list all PIDs that have a given network + file open. fuser can also list all PIDs that have a given network (TCP or UDP) port open. config KILL @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ config KILL default n help The command kill sends the specified signal to the specified - process or process group. If no signal is specified, the TERM + process or process group. If no signal is specified, the TERM signal is sent. config KILLALL @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ config KILLALL depends on KILL help killall sends a signal to all processes running any of the - specified commands. If no signal name is specified, SIGTERM is + specified commands. If no signal name is specified, SIGTERM is sent. config KILLALL5 diff --git a/shell/Config.in b/shell/Config.in index 7972002..f4a9e7b 100644 --- a/shell/Config.in +++ b/shell/Config.in @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ config ASH help Tha 'ash' shell adds about 60k in the default configuration and is the most complete and most pedantically correct shell included with - busybox. This shell is actually a derivative of the Debian 'dash' + busybox. This shell is actually a derivative of the Debian 'dash' shell (by Herbert Xu), which was created by porting the 'ash' shell (written by Kenneth Almquist) from NetBSD. @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ config ASH_MATH_SUPPORT_64 default n depends on ASH_MATH_SUPPORT help - Enable 64-bit math support in the ash shell. This will make + Enable 64-bit math support in the ash shell. This will make the shell slightly larger, but will allow computation with very large numbers. @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ config HUSH default n help hush is a very small shell (just 18k) and it has fairly complete - Bourne shell grammar. It even handles all the normal flow control + Bourne shell grammar. It even handles all the normal flow control options such as if/then/elif/else/fi, for/in/do/done, while loops, etc. @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ config MSH help The minix shell (adds just 30k) is quite complete and handles things like for/do/done, case/esac and all the things you expect a Bourne - shell to do. It is not always pedantically correct about Bourne + shell to do. It is not always pedantically correct about Bourne shell grammar (try running the shell testscript "tests/sh.testcases" on it and compare vs bash) but for most things it works quite well. It also uses only vfork, so it can be used on uClinux systems. @@ -267,11 +267,11 @@ config FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE depends on (MSH || LASH || HUSH || ASH) && FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS help This option causes busybox shells to use busybox applets - in preference to executables in the PATH whenever possible. For + in preference to executables in the PATH whenever possible. For example, entering the command 'ifconfig' into the shell would cause - busybox to use the ifconfig busybox applet. Specifying the fully + busybox to use the ifconfig busybox applet. Specifying the fully qualified executable name, such as '/sbin/ifconfig' will still - execute the /sbin/ifconfig executable on the filesystem. This option + execute the /sbin/ifconfig executable on the filesystem. This option is generally used when creating a statically linked version of busybox for use as a rescue shell, in the event that you screw up your system. @@ -285,12 +285,12 @@ config FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE started this way). # untrue? # Note that this will *also* cause applets to take precedence -# over shell builtins of the same name. So turning this on will +# over shell builtins of the same name. So turning this on will # eliminate any performance gained by turning on the builtin "echo" # and "test" commands in ash. # untrue? # Note that when using this option, the shell will attempt to directly -# run '/bin/busybox'. If you do not have the busybox binary sitting in +# run '/bin/busybox'. If you do not have the busybox binary sitting in # that exact location with that exact name, this option will not work at # all. diff --git a/sysklogd/Config.in b/sysklogd/Config.in index 4312a05..0664be0 100644 --- a/sysklogd/Config.in +++ b/sysklogd/Config.in @@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ config SYSLOGD default n help The syslogd utility is used to record logs of all the - significant events that occur on a system. Every + significant events that occur on a system. Every message that is logged records the date and time of the event, and will generally also record the name of the - application that generated the message. When used in + application that generated the message. When used in conjunction with klogd, messages from the Linux kernel - can also be recorded. This is terribly useful, + can also be recorded. This is terribly useful, especially for finding what happened when something goes - wrong. And something almost always will go wrong if + wrong. And something almost always will go wrong if you wait long enough.... config FEATURE_ROTATE_LOGFILE @@ -35,10 +35,10 @@ config FEATURE_REMOTE_LOG help When you enable this feature, the syslogd utility can be used to send system log messages to another system - connected via a network. This allows the remote + connected via a network. This allows the remote machine to log all the system messages, which can be terribly useful for reducing the number of serial - cables you use. It can also be a very good security + cables you use. It can also be a very good security measure to prevent system logs from being tampered with by an intruder. @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ config FEATURE_IPC_SYSLOG When you enable this feature, the syslogd utility will use a circular buffer to record system log messages. When the buffer is filled it will continue to overwrite - the oldest messages. This can be very useful for + the oldest messages. This can be very useful for systems with little or no permanent storage, since otherwise system logs can eventually fill up your entire filesystem, which may cause your system to @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ config LOGREAD depends on FEATURE_IPC_SYSLOG help If you enabled Circular Buffer support, you almost - certainly want to enable this feature as well. This + certainly want to enable this feature as well. This utility will allow you to read the messages that are stored in the syslogd circular buffer. @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ config KLOGD help klogd is a utility which intercepts and logs all messages from the Linux kernel and sends the messages - out to the 'syslogd' utility so they can be logged. If + out to the 'syslogd' utility so they can be logged. If you wish to record the messages produced by the kernel, you should enable this option. @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ config LOGGER help The logger utility allows you to send arbitrary text messages to the system log (i.e. the 'syslogd' utility) so - they can be logged. This is generally used to help locate + they can be logged. This is generally used to help locate problems that occur within programs and scripts. endmenu diff --git a/util-linux/Config.in b/util-linux/Config.in index 833a41f..86d404a 100644 --- a/util-linux/Config.in +++ b/util-linux/Config.in @@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ config DMESG bool "dmesg" default n help - dmesg is used to examine or control the kernel ring buffer. When the + dmesg is used to examine or control the kernel ring buffer. When the Linux kernel prints messages to the system log, they are stored in - the kernel ring buffer. You can use dmesg to print the kernel's ring + the kernel ring buffer. You can use dmesg to print the kernel's ring buffer, clear the kernel ring buffer, change the size of the kernel ring buffer, and change the priority level at which kernel messages - are also logged to the system console. Enable this option if you + are also logged to the system console. Enable this option if you wish to enable the 'dmesg' utility. config FEATURE_DMESG_PRETTY @@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ config FEATURE_DMESG_PRETTY depends on DMESG help If you wish to scrub the syslog level from the output, say 'Y' here. - The syslog level is a string prefixed to every line with the form "<#>". + The syslog level is a string prefixed to every line with the form + "<#>". With this option you will see: # dmesg @@ -42,8 +43,8 @@ config FBSET default n help fbset is used to show or change the settings of a Linux frame buffer - device. The frame buffer device provides a simple and unique - interface to access a graphics display. Enable this option + device. The frame buffer device provides a simple and unique + interface to access a graphics display. Enable this option if you wish to enable the 'fbset' utility. config FEATURE_FBSET_FANCY @@ -52,8 +53,8 @@ config FEATURE_FBSET_FANCY depends on FBSET help This option enables extended fbset options, allowing one to set the - framebuffer size, color depth, etc. interface to access a graphics - display. Enable this option if you wish to enable extended fbset + framebuffer size, color depth, etc. interface to access a graphics + display. Enable this option if you wish to enable extended fbset options. config FEATURE_FBSET_READMODE @@ -70,11 +71,11 @@ config FDFLUSH default n help fdflush is only needed when changing media on slightly-broken - removable media drives. It is used to make Linux believe that a + removable media drives. It is used to make Linux believe that a hardware disk-change switch has been actuated, which causes Linux to - forget anything it has cached from the previous media. If you have + forget anything it has cached from the previous media. If you have such a slightly-broken drive, you will need to run fdflush every time - you change a disk. Most people have working hardware and can safely + you change a disk. Most people have working hardware and can safely leave this disabled. config FDFORMAT @@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ config FDISK default n help The fdisk utility is used to divide hard disks into one or more - logical disks, which are generally called partitions. This utility + logical disks, which are generally called partitions. This utility can be used to list and edit the set of partitions or BSD style 'disk slices' that are defined on a hard drive. @@ -105,7 +106,7 @@ config FEATURE_FDISK_WRITABLE depends on FDISK help Enabling this option allows you to create or change a partition table - and write those changes out to disk. If you leave this option + and write those changes out to disk. If you leave this option disabled, you will only be able to view the partition table. config FEATURE_AIX_LABEL @@ -147,7 +148,7 @@ config FEATURE_FDISK_ADVANCED help Enabling this option allows you to do terribly unsafe things like define arbitrary drive geometry, move the beginning of data in a - partition, and similarly evil things. Unless you have a very good + partition, and similarly evil things. Unless you have a very good reason you would be wise to leave this disabled. config FINDFS @@ -156,7 +157,7 @@ config FINDFS select VOLUMEID help This is similar to the findfs program that is part of the e2fsprogs - package. However, the e2fsprogs version only support ext2/3. This + package. However, the e2fsprogs version only support ext2/3. This version supports those in addition to FAT, swap, and ReiserFS. WARNING: With all submodules selected, it will add ~8k to busybox. @@ -165,11 +166,11 @@ config FREERAMDISK bool "freeramdisk" default n help - Linux allows you to create ramdisks. This utility allows you to + Linux allows you to create ramdisks. This utility allows you to delete them and completely free all memory that was used for the - ramdisk. For example, if you boot Linux into a ramdisk and later + ramdisk. For example, if you boot Linux into a ramdisk and later pivot_root, you may want to free the memory that is allocated to the - ramdisk. If you have no use for freeing memory from a ramdisk, leave + ramdisk. If you have no use for freeing memory from a ramdisk, leave this disabled. config FSCK_MINIX @@ -177,9 +178,9 @@ config FSCK_MINIX default n help The minix filesystem is a nice, small, compact, read-write filesystem - with little overhead. It is not a journaling filesystem however and + with little overhead. It is not a journaling filesystem however and can experience corruption if it is not properly unmounted or if the - power goes off in the middle of a write. This utility allows you to + power goes off in the middle of a write. This utility allows you to check for and attempt to repair any corruption that occurs to a minix filesystem. @@ -188,8 +189,8 @@ config MKFS_MINIX default n help The minix filesystem is a nice, small, compact, read-write filesystem - with little overhead. If you wish to be able to create minix filesystems - this utility will do the job for you. + with little overhead. If you wish to be able to create minix + filesystems this utility will do the job for you. comment "Minix filesystem support" depends on FSCK_MINIX || MKFS_MINIX @@ -199,9 +200,9 @@ config FEATURE_MINIX2 default y depends on FSCK_MINIX || MKFS_MINIX help - If you wish to be able to create version 2 minix filesystems, enable this. - If you enabled 'mkfs_minix' then you almost certainly want to be using the - version 2 filesystem support. + If you wish to be able to create version 2 minix filesystems, enable + this. If you enabled 'mkfs_minix' then you almost certainly want to + be using the version 2 filesystem support. config GETOPT bool "getopt" @@ -209,9 +210,9 @@ config GETOPT help The getopt utility is used to break up (parse) options in command lines to make it easy to write complex shell scripts that also check - for legal (and illegal) options. If you want to write horribly + for legal (and illegal) options. If you want to write horribly complex shell scripts, or use some horribly complex shell script - written by others, this utility may be for you. Most people will + written by others, this utility may be for you. Most people will wisely leave this disabled. config HEXDUMP @@ -243,7 +244,7 @@ config HWCLOCK default n help The hwclock utility is used to read and set the hardware clock - on a system. This is primarily used to set the current time on + on a system. This is primarily used to set the current time on shutdown in the hardware clock, so the hardware will keep the correct time when Linux is _not_ running. @@ -252,7 +253,7 @@ config FEATURE_HWCLOCK_LONG_OPTIONS default n depends on HWCLOCK && GETOPT_LONG help - By default, the hwclock utility only uses short options. If you + By default, the hwclock utility only uses short options. If you are overly fond of its long options, such as --hctosys, --utc, etc) then enable this option. @@ -262,7 +263,7 @@ config FEATURE_HWCLOCK_ADJTIME_FHS depends on HWCLOCK help Starting with FHS 2.3, the adjtime state file is supposed to exist - at /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime instead of /etc/adjtime. If you wish + at /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime instead of /etc/adjtime. If you wish to use the FHS behavior, answer Y here, otherwise answer N for the classic /etc/adjtime path. @@ -290,7 +291,7 @@ config LOSETUP default n help losetup is used to associate or detach a loop device with a regular - file or block device, and to query the status of a loop device. This + file or block device, and to query the status of a loop device. This version does not currently support enabling data encryption. config MDEV @@ -326,7 +327,8 @@ config FEATURE_MDEV_RENAME_REGEXP default n depends on FEATURE_MDEV_RENAME help - Add support for regular expressions substitutions when renaming device. + Add support for regular expressions substitutions when renaming + device. config FEATURE_MDEV_EXEC bool "Support command execution at device addition/removal" @@ -354,9 +356,9 @@ config MKSWAP default n help The mkswap utility is used to configure a file or disk partition as - Linux swap space. This allows Linux to use the entire file or + Linux swap space. This allows Linux to use the entire file or partition as if it were additional RAM, which can greatly increase - the capability of low-memory machines. This additional memory is + the capability of low-memory machines. This additional memory is much slower than real RAM, but can be very helpful at preventing your applications being killed by the Linux out of memory (OOM) killer. Once you have created swap space using 'mkswap' you need to enable @@ -377,9 +379,9 @@ config MORE default n help more is a simple utility which allows you to read text one screen - sized page at a time. If you want to read text that is larger than + sized page at a time. If you want to read text that is larger than the screen, and you are using anything faster than a 300 baud modem, - you will probably find this utility very helpful. If you don't have + you will probably find this utility very helpful. If you don't have any need to reading text files, you can leave this disabled. config FEATURE_USE_TERMIOS @@ -388,7 +390,7 @@ config FEATURE_USE_TERMIOS depends on MORE || TOP help This option allows utilities such as 'more' and 'top' to determine - the size of the screen. If you leave this disabled, your utilities + the size of the screen. If you leave this disabled, your utilities that display things on the screen will be especially primitive and will be unable to determine the current screen size, and will be unable to move the cursor. @@ -608,10 +610,10 @@ config MOUNT default n help All files and filesystems in Unix are arranged into one big directory - tree. The 'mount' utility is used to graft a filesystem onto a - particular part of the tree. A filesystem can either live on a block + tree. The 'mount' utility is used to graft a filesystem onto a + particular part of the tree. A filesystem can either live on a block device, or it can be accessible over the network, as is the case with - NFS filesystems. Most people using BusyBox will also want to enable + NFS filesystems. Most people using BusyBox will also want to enable the 'mount' utility. config FEATURE_MOUNT_FAKE @@ -649,7 +651,7 @@ config FEATURE_MOUNT_LABEL select VOLUMEID help This allows for specifying a device by label or uuid, rather than by - name. This feature utilizes the same functionality as findfs. + name. This feature utilizes the same functionality as findfs. config FEATURE_MOUNT_NFS bool "Support mounting NFS file systems" @@ -672,7 +674,7 @@ config FEATURE_MOUNT_FLAGS bool "Support lots of -o flags in mount" default y help - Without this, mount only supports ro/rw/remount. With this, it + Without this, mount only supports ro/rw/remount. With this, it supports nosuid, suid, dev, nodev, exec, noexec, sync, async, atime, noatime, diratime, nodiratime, loud, bind, move, shared, slave, private, unbindable, rshared, rslave, rprivate, and runbindable. @@ -689,11 +691,11 @@ config PIVOT_ROOT default n help The pivot_root utility swaps the mount points for the root filesystem - with some other mounted filesystem. This allows you to do all sorts + with some other mounted filesystem. This allows you to do all sorts of wild and crazy things with your Linux system and is far more powerful than 'chroot'. - Note: This is for initrd in linux 2.4. Under initramfs (introduced + Note: This is for initrd in linux 2.4. Under initramfs (introduced in linux 2.6) use switch_root instead. config RDATE @@ -728,7 +730,7 @@ config SETARCH default n help The linux32 utility is used to create a 32bit environment for the - specified program (usually a shell). It only makes sense to have + specified program (usually a shell). It only makes sense to have this util on a system that supports both 64bit and 32bit userland (like amd64/x86, ppc64/ppc, sparc64/sparc, etc...). @@ -738,9 +740,9 @@ config SWAPONOFF help This option enables both the 'swapon' and the 'swapoff' utilities. Once you have created some swap space using 'mkswap', you also need - to enable your swap space with the 'swapon' utility. The 'swapoff' + to enable your swap space with the 'swapon' utility. The 'swapoff' utility is used, typically at system shutdown, to disable any swap - space. If you are not using any swap space, you can leave this + space. If you are not using any swap space, you can leave this option disabled. config FEATURE_SWAPON_PRI @@ -755,28 +757,28 @@ config SWITCH_ROOT default n help The switch_root utility is used from initramfs to select a new - root device. Under initramfs, you have to use this instead of - pivot_root. (Stop reading here if you don't care why.) + root device. Under initramfs, you have to use this instead of + pivot_root. (Stop reading here if you don't care why.) Booting with initramfs extracts a gzipped cpio archive into rootfs - (which is a variant of ramfs/tmpfs). Because rootfs can't be moved - or unmounted*, pivot_root will not work from initramfs. Instead, + (which is a variant of ramfs/tmpfs). Because rootfs can't be moved + or unmounted*, pivot_root will not work from initramfs. Instead, switch_root deletes everything out of rootfs (including itself), does a mount --move that overmounts rootfs with the new root, and then execs the specified init program. * Because the Linux kernel uses rootfs internally as the starting and ending point for searching through the kernel's doubly linked - list of active mount points. That's why. + list of active mount points. That's why. config UMOUNT bool "umount" default n help - When you want to remove a mounted filesystem from its current mount point, - for example when you are shutting down the system, the 'umount' utility is - the tool to use. If you enabled the 'mount' utility, you almost certainly - also want to enable 'umount'. + When you want to remove a mounted filesystem from its current mount + point, for example when you are shutting down the system, the + 'umount' utility is the tool to use. If you enabled the 'mount' + utility, you almost certainly also want to enable 'umount'. config FEATURE_UMOUNT_ALL bool "Support option -a" @@ -794,10 +796,11 @@ config FEATURE_MOUNT_LOOP depends on MOUNT || UMOUNT help Enabling this feature allows automatic mounting of files (containing - filesystem images) via the linux kernel's loopback devices. The mount - command will detect you are trying to mount a file instead of a block - device, and transparently associate the file with a loopback device. - The umount command will also free that loopback device. + filesystem images) via the linux kernel's loopback devices. + The mount command will detect you are trying to mount a file instead + of a block device, and transparently associate the file with a + loopback device. The umount command will also free that loopback + device. You can still use the 'losetup' utility (to manually associate files with loop devices) if you need to do something advanced, such as @@ -811,9 +814,9 @@ config FEATURE_MTAB_SUPPORT select FEATURE_MOUNT_FAKE help Historically, Unix systems kept track of the currently mounted - partitions in the file "/etc/mtab". These days, the kernel exports + partitions in the file "/etc/mtab". These days, the kernel exports the list of currently mounted partitions in "/proc/mounts", rendering - the old mtab file obsolete. (In modern systems, /etc/mtab should be + the old mtab file obsolete. (In modern systems, /etc/mtab should be a symlink to /proc/mounts.) The only reason to have mount maintain an /etc/mtab file itself is if @@ -823,7 +826,7 @@ config FEATURE_MTAB_SUPPORT features like separate per-process filesystem namespaces, requires that your /etc directory be writeable, tends to get easily confused by --bind or --move mounts, won't update if you rename a directory - that contains a mount point, and so on. (In brief: avoid.) + that contains a mount point, and so on. (In brief: avoid.) About the only reason to use this is if you've removed /proc from your kernel. |