On Sat, 4 Sep 2010, walter marvin wrote:
> I also looked at rebuilding busybox, but that's a big project. Putting
> together a small utility using the unbpard libraries is sinple
Actually in general, compiling busybox is not that big a deal, and maybe
easier for non-programmers[1]. Anyway choice is good - rebuild busybox or
code your own.
Jim
[1] However finding a version that compiled with the TS crosscompiler was
more of a problem. And compiling an all features busybox gave me lots of
utilities that TS in their wisdom left out of their build, or were not
present in the very early busybox version TS built from.
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> From: Jim Jackson <jj%40franjam.org.uk>
> To:
> Sent: Sat, September 4, 2010 4:44:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [ts-7000] TS-7260 linux : how to change process priority
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> >> I am trying to change process priority on TS-7260 (running ts-linux).
> >> Can somebody tell me if it's possible on Ts-linux and how to do it? It
> >> looks like there is no "nice" or "renice" available (I am getting error
> >> message: -sh nice not found)
> >>
> >
> > roll your own! I believe the level 2 system call is still there. busy box
> > is kind of limited. Technologic should put the full suite on the disk
>
> roll your own could be a couple of things.
>
> Write your own C code to call the system call nice (see man 2 nice)
>
> or rebuild busybox to include the renice
command (and many others!)
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> I've had trouble compiling upto date busyboxes with the cross compilation
> kit TS provide, but I did get busybox 1.1 recompiled fairly easily with
> lots of extra commands included. I needed e2fsck for checking an SDcard
> used for logged data.
>
> Jim
> p.s. Alex, if you are stuck I can email you the busybox 1.1 executable.
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