busybox-w32/miscutils/crond.c, branch long_paths

*: use safe_waitpid() or wait_any_nohang() where approppriate

2025-07-30T18:02:23+00:00

function old new delta crond_main 1227 1237 +10 init_main 804 794 -10 wait_one 263 252 -11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/2 up/down: 10/-21) Total: -11 bytes Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

crond: reap orphaned grandchildren to prevent zombie buildup

2025-07-30T17:49:23+00:00

If a cron job launches a background task, e.g. `sh -c "sleep 5 &"`, the shell exits immediately and the `sleep` process is re-parented to PID 1. When BusyBox `crond` itself happens to be PID 1 (common in a minimal container), those orphans become direct children of `crond`. Because `crond` only calls waitpid() for the PIDs it explicitly tracks, these processes remain forever in Z state and the container slowly fills with zombies. Add a small `while (waitpid(-1, NULL, WNOHANG) > 0)` sweep at the end of check_completions() so any stray children are reaped. When `crond` is not PID 1 the loop returns -ECHILD immediately, so behaviour and overhead on a normal system are unchanged. Size impact: +12 bytes on x86-64 (gcc 13.3.0 -Os, static) Signed-off-by: Valentin Lab Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

libbb: crypt_make_pw_salt(): fix yescrypt's random salt last char

2025-07-19T16:42:32+00:00

function old new delta crypt_make_pw_salt 128 146 +18 Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

crond: log5 fix typo, replace log level '4' with '5'

2024-03-02T16:03:37+00:00

log5() with crondlog(5, msg, va) seems making logging more consistent. function old new delta ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/0 up/down: 0/0) Total: 0 bytes Signed-off-by: Jones Syue Signed-off-by: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer

Update applet size estimates

2023-07-10T15:25:21+00:00

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

crond: implement support for setting PATH in crontab files

2022-05-02T10:28:48+00:00

It's very inconvenient for a cron user not to be able to set a "personal" PATH for their cron jobs, as is possible with other crons function old new delta load_crontab 868 942 +74 .rodata 104878 104884 +6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/0 up/down: 80/0) Total: 80 bytes Signed-off-by: Paul Fox Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

libbb: introduce and use chdir_or_warn()

2022-01-13T11:56:10+00:00

function old new delta chdir_or_warn - 37 +37 send_cgi_and_exit 720 711 -9 xchdir 27 15 -12 setup_environment 233 217 -16 fork_job 449 433 -16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 0/4 up/down: 37/-53) Total: -16 bytes Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

help text tweaks

2020-12-13T18:04:19+00:00

function old new delta packed_usage 33547 33545 -2 Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

decrease paddign: gcc-9.3.1 slaps 32-byte alignment on arrays willy-nilly

2020-11-30T12:03:03+00:00

text data bss dec hex filename 1021988 559 5052 1027599 fae0f busybox_old 1021236 559 5052 1026847 fab1f busybox_unstripped Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

libbb: reduce the overhead of single parameter bb_error_msg() calls

2019-07-02T09:35:03+00:00

Back in 2007, commit 0c97c9d43707 ("'simple' error message functions by Loic Grenie") introduced bb_simple_perror_msg() to allow for a lower overhead call to bb_perror_msg() when only a string was being printed with no parameters. This saves space for some CPU architectures because it avoids the overhead of a call to a variadic function. However there has never been a simple version of bb_error_msg(), and since 2007 many new calls to bb_perror_msg() have been added that only take a single parameter and so could have been using bb_simple_perror_message(). This changeset introduces 'simple' versions of bb_info_msg(), bb_error_msg(), bb_error_msg_and_die(), bb_herror_msg() and bb_herror_msg_and_die(), and replaces all calls that only take a single parameter, or use something like ("%s", arg), with calls to the corresponding 'simple' version. Since it is likely that single parameter calls to the variadic functions may be accidentally reintroduced in the future a new debugging config option WARN_SIMPLE_MSG has been introduced. This uses some macro magic which will cause any such calls to generate a warning, but this is turned off by default to avoid use of the unpleasant macros in normal circumstances. This is a large changeset due to the number of calls that have been replaced. The only files that contain changes other than simple substitution of function calls are libbb.h, libbb/herror_msg.c, libbb/verror_msg.c and libbb/xfuncs_printf.c. In miscutils/devfsd.c, networking/udhcp/common.h and util-linux/mdev.c additonal macros have been added for logging so that single parameter and multiple parameter logging variants exist. The amount of space saved varies considerably by architecture, and was found to be as follows (for 'defconfig' using GCC 7.4): Arm: -92 bytes MIPS: -52 bytes PPC: -1836 bytes x86_64: -938 bytes Note that for the MIPS architecture only an exception had to be made disabling the 'simple' calls for 'udhcp' (in networking/udhcp/common.h) because it made these files larger on MIPS. Signed-off-by: James Byrne Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko