BBC
After a bunch more work, I got ash 0.3.6 to build statically against uClibc. The great news was that it came out just over 100K and -- even better -- eliminated the zombie problem entirely. So the zombie processes must have been due to some kind of bug in that older version of ash.
I'm encouraged by this, and I put up a test version of the new BBC based on this new boot image.
The test version basically worked properly on my system and on Zack's system; as often, I found a bunch of things that we need to try to fix up before the release. BBC development is proceeding apace.
I've been trying to explain to some people who are not free software geeks why it is that I'm still working on this project if I'm not working for Linuxcare anymore. It doesn't necessarily make sense to them offhand. But if somebody said to me that the maintainer of libfoo stopped working at Yoyodyne Industries, and was still working on libfoo, well, that would make perfect sense to me. What, do people only work on technical projects because they get paid for it?
