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authorEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2003-07-14 19:18:43 +0000
committerEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2003-07-14 19:18:43 +0000
commitfb0c6af286013929a89a2ba37f1d74cc05cdd5e7 (patch)
tree5ccaf4945a1bc5cba82209e9dfa8d59f56382134 /init
parent9edcabdc340e858227017b023a724c7e7e9f67d8 (diff)
Patch from Lars Kellogg-Stedman:
The attached two patches add config documentation to init/Config.in and fileutils/Config.in.
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/Config.in27
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/init/Config.in b/init/Config.in
index 0316399e6..d56cd5540 100644
--- a/init/Config.in
+++ b/init/Config.in
@@ -30,14 +30,18 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_INIT_COREDUMPS
default y
depends on CONFIG_INIT
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ 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
+ will not generate any core files.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_EXTRA_QUIET
bool " Should init be _extra_ quiet on boot?"
default y
depends on CONFIG_INIT
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Prevent init from logging some messages to the console
+ during boot.
# Some apps that are meaningless without BusyBox running as init
config CONFIG_HALT
@@ -45,27 +49,30 @@ config CONFIG_HALT
default y
depends on CONFIG_INIT
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Stop all processes.
config CONFIG_POWEROFF
bool "poweroff"
default y
depends on CONFIG_INIT
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Stop all processes and (try to) power off the system.
config CONFIG_REBOOT
bool "reboot"
default y
depends on CONFIG_INIT
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Stop all processes and reboot the system.
config CONFIG_MINIT
bool "minit"
default n
help
- Minimal init, based on minit v0.9.1
+ Minimal init, based on minit v0.9.1. This is a simple
+ init replacement that handles starting/stopping services,
+ and service dependencies. See http://www.fefe.de/minit/
+ for additional information.
config CONFIG_PIDFILEHACK
bool "pidfilehack"
@@ -86,13 +93,17 @@ config CONFIG_START_STOP_DAEMON
bool "start-stop-daemon"
default y
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ start-stop-daemon is used to control the creation and
+ termination of system-level processes, usually the ones
+ started during the startup of the system.
config CONFIG_MESG
bool "mesg"
default y
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Mesg controls the access to your terminal by others. It
+ is typically used to allow or disallow other users to write
+ to your terminal
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