From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3MDpiOj004090 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:51:44 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j3MDpeR3004101 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:51:40 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:51:30 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replace 'sash' with 'busybox' as our static rescue shell From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200504220938.47437.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <200504220938.47437.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-JyS5joQSJOS87R77CRNa" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:51:29 -0400 Message-Id: <1114177889.889.15.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 X-Archives-Salt: 2d64b65a-467e-46bd-bb48-cb53162d7fb8 X-Archives-Hash: 6efc4603f40626cd76290adbb98496cc --=-JyS5joQSJOS87R77CRNa Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 09:38 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > for those of you who do not know, busybox is a single binary which implem= ents=20 > the functionality of most system utils ... it does not completely impleme= nt=20 > some features, just the most common ones, but then again sash does the sa= me=20 > thing :) >=20 > details: > - busybox implements a *ton* more applets ... it can be configured to rep= lace=20 > over 100 system funcs while sash provides about 35 ... > - size wise, busybox would be larger, probably by about ~150k - ~200k > - busybox commands are transparent while sash requires you to prefix inte= rnal=20 > commands with a '-' ... so running `cp` in busybox will use busybox's cp=20 > while sash needs to run '-cp', and you can still execute the real cp by=20 > doing /bin/cp in busybox >=20 > feedback !? Could this make it easier to use busybox for the actual root on a LiveCD? If so, then I'm all for it. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-JyS5joQSJOS87R77CRNa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCaQFhkT4lNIS36YERAqcDAJ99aMZ668HCxNRnv9kiFyCdRwoK4gCgvI11 Hb9tCKAIUsYbrOTeVVhylXE= =AY2j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-JyS5joQSJOS87R77CRNa-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list