[ug-bosug] Fwd: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

[Joseph George ( Joe G )]

Congrats Shiv! Busybox is an official project on opensolaris.org. I  
am looking forward to the next version of BeleniX which will carry  
busybox.

~Joe


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Eric Boutilier <Eric.Boutilier at Sun.COM>
> Date: 5 April 2007 1:34:46 AM GMT+05:30
> To: gns <shivakumargn at yahoo.com>
> Cc: opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org
> Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93
> Reply-To: Eric.Boutilier at Sun.COM
>
> Thanks, Shivakumar. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to
> get you set up.
>
> Eric
>
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, gns wrote:
>> Project proposal : busybox-ksh93
>>
>> Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for  
>> OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros  
>> and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup time and run-time  
>> performance. This should also be useful in the appliance domain.
>>
>> The project would have 2 outputs:
>> 1. Shell integration of stand-alone commands in a modular manner.  
>> ksh93 will be the shell of choice for the same.
>> 2. All the identified commands housed in a stand alone executable.  
>> ksh93 design would be reused here (by providing a wrapper around  
>> libcmd)
>>
>> The set of built-in commands will be configurable. The set of  
>> commands that will be made as the default integration set will be  
>> identified based on commands frequently used in the startup and  
>> smf scripts of solaris distros. The modularity of the setup will  
>> ensure addition/removal of commands is possible at buildtime.
>>
>> The project would use the code-base of ON. Where multiple command  
>> sources are present (ex: /usr/bin,/usr/xpg4/bin,etc), the project  
>> would choose the source code base that is most standards compliant  
>> and aware of multibyte characters.
>>
>> A related piece of work has been done for the belenix project(sh  
>> integration) and code has been contributed to belenix. This will  
>> become available with the belenix release that is scheduled for  
>> this month(April-2007).
>>
>> Future possibilities not considered in the current scope include :
>> 1. Optimizing libc for size and resources, generating customized  
>> libc with reduced functionality.
>> 2. Ability to customize the set of features included in the  
>> commands in the interest of minimization.
>>
>> The initial leaders of this project would be:
>> Moinak Ghosh
>> Roland Mainz
>> Shivakumar GN
>>
>>
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Cheers,
~Joe

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Joe  G (Joseph George)
Manager Solaris Revenue Product Engg
Sun Microsystems Inc
http://blogs.sun.com/josephgeorge
http://www.belenix.org

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