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Diffstat (limited to 'Config.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | Config.in | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -244,8 +244,13 @@ config FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS help This is an experimental option which directs applets about to call 'exec' to try and find an applicable busybox applet before - searching the PATH. This may affect shell, find -exec, xargs and - similar programs. + searching the PATH. This is typically done by exec'ing + /proc/self/exe. + This may affect shell, find -exec, xargs and similar applets. + They will use applets even if /bin/<applet> -> busybox link + is missing (or is not a link to busybox). However, this causes + problems in chroot jails without mounted /proc and with ps/top + (command name can be shown as 'exe' for applets started this way). config BUSYBOX_EXEC_PATH string "Path to BusyBox executable" |