[busybox-dev] Getting started with "busybox" ...

[Bruno Jargot]

Has the work on this project made any progress yet? There weren't any
updates for a month :(

On 4/25/07, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
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>
> Did anyone thought about how/where we should start with busybox yet ?
>
> For example (more or less a raw braindump):
> 1. Which commands do we want to include in our busybox ?
> - AFAIK someone from the SMF or Dtrace team (CC:'ing Liane Praza
> <liane.praza at sun.com> for that, maybe she remebers more details) once
> created a Dtrace script to track all commands at boot time (the results
> where used to build a graph which someone put into her/her blog). AFAIK
> such a script+results would be usefull to check which commands are used
> more or less often and which are good canidates as builtins (AFAIK the
> criteria are "small" and "often used", right ?)
>
> - Which platform-specific (e.g. Solaris-specific commands) should be
> included (this may be tricky since it may require dependicies to other
> libraries (or maybe this is not a problem since we could "lazyload" such
> libraries from libbusyboxcmd.so.1)) ?
>
> 2. How do we include commands ?
> AFAIK options include:
> - builtin in libcmd (e.g. in the upstream version of libcmd)
> - builtin in something like a libbusyboxcmd.so.1
> - shell script function (e.g. usr/src/lib/libshell/common/tests/grep.sh
> is a cut-down script version of POSIX "grep")
> - external command
>
> 3. Which commands should be enabled by default and which should be
> loadable using the "builtin" command ?
> This depends on the usage, right ?
>
> Any ideas/comments/wishlists etc. welcome...
>
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> Bye,
> Roland
>
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Bruno