[BusyBox] Passing arguments to init when loading the kernel?

[Erik Andersen]

On Tue Feb 20, 2001 at 07:44:44PM +0100, Erik Gustavsson wrote:
> 
> According to these two code fragments termType is always set to the
> correct value:
> 
> in console_init():
> 
> if ((s = getenv("TERM")) != NULL) {
> 	snprintf(termType, sizeof(termType) - 1, "TERM=%s, s);
> }
> 
> and ...
> 
> /* Force the TERM setting to vt102 for serial console --
>  * iff TERM is set to linux (the default) */
> if (strcmp( termType, "TERM=linux" ) == 0)
> 	snprintf(termType, sizeof(termType) - 1, "TERM=vt102");
> 
> So if joe user sets TERM=FlashyTerm2000, termType will have this value, as
> will the environment for the init scripts...  No need to change the patch.
> 
> In fact, I think the change would put "TERM=Linux" back into termType if 
> BB had changed it to "vt102", would it not?

Yup.  My bad.  I have reverted my ill-thought-out change. 

 -Erik

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