From b5d701d737cb68b5bb54dc279c3cebc0dc87600b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:52:45 +0000 Subject: - some more nitpicks --- docs/busybox.net/FAQ.html | 19 +++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/busybox.net/FAQ.html') diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/FAQ.html b/docs/busybox.net/FAQ.html index aa2a5f7..ac4e90a 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/FAQ.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/FAQ.html @@ -802,7 +802,7 @@ file is at least worth a look. Special-case code in the body of an applet is something we're trying to avoid.
Various things busybox uses that aren't particularly well documented elsewhere.
@@ -1040,7 +1040,8 @@ to measure).The "linux" or "asm" directories of /usr/include contain Linux kernel +
The "linux" or "asm" directories of /usr/include +contain Linux kernel headers, so that the C library can talk directly to the Linux kernel. In a perfect world, applications shouldn't include these headers directly, but we don't live in a perfect world.
@@ -1050,7 +1051,7 @@ we don't live in a perfect world. Attempts to cut and paste the information into a local busybox header file proved incredibly painful, because portions of the loop_info structure vary by architecture, namely the type __kernel_dev_t has different sizes on alpha, -arm, x86, and so on. Meaning we either #includeThis is aside from the fact that the relevant type defined in
posix_types.h was renamed to __kernel_old_dev_t during the 2.5 series, so
to cut and paste the structure into our header we have to #include
-
Just because directly #including kernel headers is sometimes unavoidable doesn't me we should include them when there's a better @@ -1109,8 +1112,8 @@ vda :Denys Vlasenko - BusyBox maintainer
The following accounts used to exist on busybox.net, but don't anymore so
-I can't ask /etc/passwd for their names. Rob Wentworth
aaronl :Aaron Lehmann -- cgit v1.1