Do you mean enjoy compiling or did you forget the attachment?

This time for sure

What did I do???
My player only says "Waiting..." and "0:00" in the lower right...
I replaced the file hijack in /bin with the file you attached and changed to 755. What's going on? Help!!!
Thanks.

Do you have scripts in /etc/preinit.d?

My player only says "Waiting..." and "0:00" in the lower right...

Probably has nothing to do with your init.

Check out this FAQ Entry.

The M50gpsapp script. Nothing else.
I think the player goes into aux mode after booting.
Why is the new file so small compared to the old one?

Simultaneous posting...
Ok, it was the aux... pooh, shock...
No idea why it switched over, I've never set the source to aux.
There's no memory violation anymore! Thanks alot.

The old one is statically linked for safety. Doesn't seem to make much of a difference in real life, though. I'll see if I can get these changes incorporated into the real source.

And, jaharkes, the reason I called /bin/sh from the system() call is because it was failing to work for me without doing that before, for some reason. I assumed it was the same reason I couldn't get a shell script to run as an init in the first place, which I couldn't figure out, so I ignored it here, too, but I didn't want to make people compile programs for startup purposes, so I explicitly called upon /bin/sh.

But /bin/sh is as far as I know only available on the developer image, so anyone with a regular image can install hijack, and upload preinit, but then nothing will work.

btw. I straced the difference between sh -c and sh and it looks like sh foo will fail when foo is not a shell script, while sh -c foo will actually exec foo when it is a binary, so sh -c sh foo should start sh, which exec's sh, which then parses the contents of foo. So the memory footprint isn't as bad as I expected initially.

Maybe the lack of /sbin/sh was the initial problem. Hadn't even considered that. I got lost in a series of odd weirdnesses. Preinit was supposed to be a quick hack. Didn't turn out that way.

Do I have your permission to use your changes to fold back into my release? I've got some other semi-released code that I should get around to releasing, too.

You've got the gps connected to the serial port, and it is set to output nmea? I guess you didn't run hack_init on the player or you are running on AC, and as such the player isn't started with -s- and is actually trying to interpret the gps data as if they were commands coming in over the serial port.

Just a hunch

Ofcourse, especially the ones that fix the couple of allocation problems that valgrind found.

Do you refer to my post in the 'gpsapp - less talk more action' thread? I've run hack_init and I use gps only in the car.
My player switched to aux after uploading the patched preinit. No gps connected at that time...