Re: Disk is cheap?

Robert Kaiser (rob@sysgo.de)
Tue, 6 Feb 2001 16:30:12 +0100


On Die, 06 Feb 2001 you wrote:
> But paring down the startup scripts is a good idea. For something like an embedded
> device, you might even want to go with a custom init,

Yes, I'm using busybox (see busybox.lineo.com). It's a multi-call binary that
contains a simplified init, a shell and a host of other nice things.

> that just runs your main program.

Well the _very_ minimal approach is to have your main program _be_ init :-)

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