From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3MJP8D3022057 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:25:08 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DP3lh-0006VH-V5 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:24:50 +0000 Received: (qmail 9933 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2005 15:22:43 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 22 Apr 2005 15:22:43 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replace 'sash' with 'busybox' as our static rescue shell Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:26:01 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200504220938.47437.vapier@gentoo.org> <20050422180848.GA13046@universe.org> In-Reply-To: <20050422180848.GA13046@universe.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504221526.01907.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: cd1c91b3-9035-45df-95f7-77b55e10039f X-Archives-Hash: d1ed3d9ed83c426298ca4bc63797aae2 On Friday 22 April 2005 02:08 pm, Stelian Ionescu wrote: > file can sometimes be very useful, for instance if I want to know the > major/minor numbers of a device. the same about stat ok ... well `ls -l` can give you the same exact info: $ ls -l /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Apr 22 15:00 /dev/null and sash doesnt implement 'stat' ... so really file is not necessary for this reason i can implement stat in busybox, shouldnt be hard -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list