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17 <p>At a secondary level we'd like to meet other use cases. We've analyzed |
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18 the commands provided by similar projects (klibc, sash, sbase, s6, embutils, |
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37 <a href=#sash>sash</a>, <a href=#sbase>sbase</a>, <a href=#s6>s6</a>...</li> |
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253 logcat, logwrapper, mkbootimg, netcfg, run-as, and sdcard.</p> |
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256 <li><b>fs_mgr</b> - subset of mount</li> |
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257 <li><b>gpttool</b> - subset of fdisk</li> |
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258 <li><b>init</b> - Android's PID 1</li> |
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259 <li><b>logcat</b> - read android log format</li> |
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260 <li><b>logwrapper</b> - redirect stdio to android log</li> |
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261 <li><b>mkbootimg</b> - create signed boot image</li> |
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262 <li><b>netcfg</b> - network configuration (sucks in libnetutils)</li> |
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263 <li><b>run-as</b> - subset of sudo</li> |
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264 <li><b>sdcard</b> - FUSE wrapper to squash UID/GID/permissions to what FAT supports.</li> |
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267 <p>Almost all of these reinvent an existing wheel with less functionality and a |
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268 different user interface. We may want to provide that interface, but |
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269 implementing the full commands (mount, fdisk, init, ifconfig with dhcp, |
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270 and sudo) come first.</p> |
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272 <p>Although logcat/logwrapper also reinvent a wheel, Android did so in the |
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273 kernel and these provide an interface to that.</p> |
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275 <p>Also, gpttool and mkbootimg are install tools, and sdcard looks like a |
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276 testing tool. These aren't a priority if android wants to use its own |
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277 bespoke code to install itself.</p> |
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281 <p>For reference, combining everything listed above, we get:</p> |
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287 ionice kill ln load_policy log logcat logwrapper ls lsmod lsof lsusb md5 |
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288 mkbootimg mkdir mount mv nandread netcfg netstat newfs_msdos notify printenv |
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289 ps r readtty reboot renice restorecon rm rmdir rmmod rotatefb route run-as |
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295 <p>We may eventually implement all of that, but for toybox 1.0 we need to |
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297 commands except lsusb, and grab just logcat and logwrapper from the "core" |
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298 commands (since the rest have some full/standard version providing that |
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299 functionality, which we can implement a shim interface for later).</p> |
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301 <p>This means toybox should implement:</p> |
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313 <p>The following Toolbox commands are already covered in previous |
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321 <p>Which leaves the following commands as new from Toolbox:</p> |
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344 cat chroot cpio dd dmesg false fixdep fstype gunzip gzip halt ipconfig kill |
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345 kinit ln losetup ls minips mkdir mkfifo mknodes |
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346 mksyntax mount mv nfsmount nuke pivot_root poweroff readlink reboot resume |
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347 run-init sh sha1hash sleep sync true umount uname zcat |
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348 </p></blockquote> |
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350 <p>To get that list, build klibc according to the instructions (I |
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351 <a href=http://landley.net/notes-2013.html#23-01-2013>looked at</a> version |
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352 2.0.2 and did cd klibc-*; ln -s /output/of/kernel/make/headers_install |
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353 linux; make) then <b>echo $(for i in $(find . -type f); do file $i | grep -q |
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354 executable && basename $i; done | grep -v '[.]g$' | sort -u)</b> to find |
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355 executables, then eliminated the *.so files and *.shared duplicates.</p> |
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357 <p>Some of those binaries are build-time tools that don't get installed, |
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358 which removes mknodes, mksyntax, sha1hash, and fixdep from the list. |
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359 (And sha1hash is just an unpolished sha1sum anyway.)</p> |
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361 <p>The run-init command is more commonly called switch_root, nuke is just |
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362 "rm -rf -- $@", and minips is more commonly called "ps". I'm not doing aliases |
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363 for the oddball names.</p> |
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365 <p>Yet more stale forks of dash and gzip sucked in here (see "dubious |
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366 license terms" above), adding nothing to the other projects we've looked at. |
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367 But we still need sh, gunzip, gzip, and zcat to replace this package.</p> |
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368 |
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369 <p>By the time I did the analysis toybox already had cat, chroot, dmesg, false, |
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370 kill, ln, losetup, ls, mkdir, mkfifo, readlink, rm, switch_root, sleep, sync, |
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371 true, and uname.</p> |
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372 |
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373 <p>The low hanging fruit is cpio, dd, ps, mv, and pivot_root.</p> |
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374 |
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375 <p>The "kinit" command is another gratuitous rename, it's init running as PID 1. |
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376 The halt, poweroff, and reboot commands work with it.</p> |
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377 |
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378 <p>I've got mount and umount queued up already, fstype and nfsmount go with |
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379 those. (And probably smbmount and p9mount, but this hasn't got one. Those |
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380 are all about querying for login credentials, probably workable into the |
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381 base mount command.)</p> |
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382 |
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383 <p>The ipconfig command here has a built in dhcp client, so it's ifconfig |
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384 and dhcpcd and maybe some other stuff.</p> |
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385 |
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386 <p>The resume command is... weird. It finds a swap partition and reads data |
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387 from it into a /proc file, something the kernel is capable of doing itself. |
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388 (Even though the klibc author |
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389 <a href=http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/klibc/2006-June/001748.html>attempted |
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390 to remove</a> that capability from the kernel, current kernel/power/hibernate.c |
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391 still parses "resume=" on the command line). And yet various distros seem to |
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392 make use of klibc for this> |
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393 Given the history of swsusp/hibernate (and |
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394 <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/333007>TuxOnIce</a> |
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395 and <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/242107>kexec jump</a>) I've lost track |
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396 of the current state of the art here. Ah, Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt |
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397 has the API docs, and <a href=http://suspend.sf.net>here's a better |
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398 tool</a>...</p> |
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399 |
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400 <p>So the list of things actually in klibc are:</p> |
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401 |
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402 <blockquote><b> |
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403 <span id=klibc_cmd> |
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404 cat chroot dmesg false kill ln losetup ls mkdir mkfifo readlink rm switch_root |
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405 sleep sync true uname |
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407 cpio dd ps mv pivot_root |
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408 mount nfsmount fstype umount |
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409 sh gunzip gzip zcat |
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410 kinit halt poweroff reboot |
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411 ipconfig |
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412 resume |
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413 </span> |
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414 </b></blockquote> |
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416 <hr /> |
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417 <a name=glibc /> |
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418 <h2>glibc</h2> |
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419 |
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420 <p>Rather a lot of command line utilities come bundled with glibc:</p> |
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421 |
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422 <blockquote><b> |
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423 catchsegv getconf getent iconv iconvconfig ldconfig ldd locale localedef |
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424 mtrace nscd rpcent rpcinfo tzselect zdump zic |
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425 </b></blockquote> |
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427 <p>Of those, musl libc only implements ldd.</p> |
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429 <p>catchsegv is a rudimentary debugger, probably out of scope for toybox.</p> |
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431 <p>iconv has been <a href="#susv4">previously discussed</a>.</p> |
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433 <p>iconvconfig is only relevant if iconv is user-configurable; musl uses a |
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434 non-configurable iconv.</p> |
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436 <p>getconf is a posix utility which displays several variables from |
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437 unistd.h; it probably belongs in the development toolchain.</p> |
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439 <p>getent handles retrieving entries from passwd-style databases |
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440 (in a rather lame way) and is trivially replacable by grep.</p> |
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442 <p>locale was discussed under <a href=#susv4>posix</a>. |
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443 localedef compiles locale definitions, which musl currently does not use.</p> |
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445 <p>mtrace is a perl script to use the malloc debugging that glibc has built-in; |
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446 this is not relevant for musl, and would necessarily vary with libc. </p> |
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448 <p>nscd is a name service caching daemon, which is not yet relevant for musl. |
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449 rpcinfo and rpcent are related to rpc, which musl does not include.</p> |
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451 <p>The remaining commands involve glibc's bundled timezone database, |
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452 which seems to be derived from the <a href=http://www.iana.org/time-zones>IANA |
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453 timezone database</a>. Unless we want to maintain our own fork of the |
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454 standards body's database like glibc does, these are of no interest, |
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455 but for completeness:</p> |
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457 <p>tzselect outputs a TZ variable correponding to user input. |
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458 The documentation does not indicate how to use it in a script, but it seems |
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459 that Debian may have done so. |
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460 zdump prints current time in each of several timezones, optionally |
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461 outputting a great deal of extra information about each timezone. |
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462 zic converts a description of a timezone to a file in tz format.</p> |
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463 |
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464 <p>None of glibc's bundled commands are currently of interest to toybox.</p> |
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465 |
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466 </b></blockquote> |
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467 |
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468 <hr /> |
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469 <a name=sash /> |
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470 <h2>Stand-Alone Shell</h2> |
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471 |
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472 <p>Wikipedia has <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-alone_shell>a good |
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473 summary of sash</a>, with links. The original Stand-Alone Shell project reached |
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474 a stopping point, and then <a href=http://www.baiti.net/sash>"sash plus |
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475 patches"</a> extended it a bit further. The result is a megabyte executable |
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476 that provides 40 commands.</p> |
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477 |
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478 <p>Sash is a shell with built-in commands. It doesn't have a multiplexer |
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479 command, meaning "sash ls -l" doesn't work (you have to go "sash -c 'ls -l'"). |
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480 </p> |
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481 |
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482 <p>The list of commands can be obtained via building it and doing |
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483 "echo help | ./sash | awk '{print $1}' | sed 's/^-//' | xargs echo", which |
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484 gives us:</p> |
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485 |
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486 <blockquote><b> |
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487 alias aliasall ar cd chattr chgrp chmod chown cmp cp chroot dd echo ed exec |
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488 exit file find grep gunzip gzip help kill losetup losetup ln ls lsattr mkdir |
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489 mknod more mount mv pivot_root printenv prompt pwd quit rm rmdir setenv source |
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490 sum sync tar touch umask umount unalias where |
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491 </b></blockquote> |
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492 |
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493 <p>Plus sh because it's a shell. A dozen or so commands can only sanely be |
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494 implemented as shell builtins (alias aliasall cd exec exit prompt quit setenv |
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495 source umask unalias), where is an alias for which, and at triage time toybox |
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496 already has chgrp, chmod, chown, cmp, cp, chroot, echo, help, kill, losetup, |
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497 ln, ls, mkdir, mknod, printenv, pwd, rm, rmdir, sync, and touch.</p> |
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498 |
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499 <p>This leaves:</p> |
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500 |
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501 <blockquote><b> |
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502 <span id=sash_cmd> |
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503 ar chattr dd ed file find grep gunzip gzip lsattr more mount mv pivot_root |
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504 sh sum tar umount |
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505 </span> |
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506 </b></blockquote> |
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507 |
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508 <p>(For once, this project doesn't include a fork of gzip, instead |
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509 it sucks in -lz from the host.)</p> |
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510 |
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511 <hr /> |
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512 <a name=sbase /> |
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513 <h2>sbase:</h2> |
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514 |
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515 <p>It's <a href=http://git.suckless.org/sbase>on suckless</a>. So far it's |
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516 implemented:</p> |
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517 |
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518 <blockquote><p> |
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519 <span id=sbase_cmd> |
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520 basename cat chmod chown cksum cmp cp date dirname echo false fold grep head |
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521 kill ln ls mc mkdir mkfifo mv nl nohup pwd rm seq sleep sort tail tee test |
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522 touch true tty uname uniq wc yes |
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523 </span> |
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524 </p></blockquote> |
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525 |
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526 <p>And has a TODO list:</p> |
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527 |
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528 <blockquote><p> |
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529 <span id=sbase_cmd> |
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530 cal chgrp chvt comm cut df diff du env expand expr id md5sum nice paste |
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531 printenv printf readlink rmdir seq sha1sum split sync test tr unexpand unlink |
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532 who |
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533 </span> |
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534 </p></blockquote> |
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536 <p>At triage time, of the first list I still need to do: fold grep mc mv nl. Of |
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537 the second list: diff expr paste printf split test tr unexpand who.</p> |
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538 |
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539 <hr /> |
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540 <a name=s6 /> |
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541 <h2>s6</h2> |
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542 |
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543 <p>The website <a href=http://skarnet.org/software/>skarnet</a> has a bunch |
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544 of small utilities as part of something called "s6". This includes the |
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545 <a href=http://skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils>s6-portabile-utils</a> |
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546 and the <a href=http://skarnet.org/software/s6-linux-utils>s6-linux-utils</a>. |
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547 </p> |
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549 <p>Both packages rely on multiple bespoke external libraries without which |
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550 they can't compile. The source is completely uncommented and doesn't wrap at |
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551 80 characters. Doing a find for *.c files brings up the following commands:</p> |
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553 <blockquote><b> |
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554 <span id=s6> |
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555 basename cat chmod chown chroot clock cut devd dirname echo env expr false |
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556 format-filter freeramdisk grep halt head hiercopy hostname linkname ln |
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557 logwatch ls maximumtime memoryhog mkdir mkfifo mount nice nuke pause |
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558 pivotchroot poweroff printenv quote quote-filter reboot rename rmrf sleep |
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559 sort swapoff swapon sync tail test touch true umount uniquename unquote |
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560 unquote-filter update-symlinks |
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561 </span> |
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562 </b></blockquote> |
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564 <p>Triage: memoryhog isn't even listed on the website nor does it have |
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565 a documentation file, clock seems like a subset |
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566 of date, devd is some sort of netlink wrapper that spawns its command line |
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567 every time it gets a message (maybe this is meant to implement part of |
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568 udev/mdev?), format-filter is sort of awk's '{print $2}' function split out |
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569 into its own command, hiercopy a subset of "cp -r", maximumtime is something |
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570 I implemented as a shell script (more/timeout.sh in Aboriginal Linux), |
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571 nuke isn't the same as klibc (this one's "kill SIG -1" only with hardwared |
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572 SIG options), pause is a program that literally waits to be killed (I |
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573 generally sleep 999999999 which is a little over 30 years), |
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574 pivotchroot is a subset of switch_root, rmrf is rm -rf...</p> |
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576 <p>I see "nuke" resurface, and if "rmrf" wasn't also here I might think |
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577 klibc had a point.</b> |
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579 <blockquote> |
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580 basename cat chmod chown chroot cut dirname echo env expr false |
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581 freeramdisk grep halt head hostname linkname ln |
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582 logwatch ls mkdir mkfifo mount nice |
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583 pivotchroot poweroff printenv quote quote-filter reboot rename sleep |
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584 sort swapoff swapon sync tail test touch true umount uniquename unquote |
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585 unquote-filter update-symlinks |
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586 </blockquote> |
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589 <hr /> |
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590 <a name=nash /> |
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591 <h2>nash:</h2> |
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593 <p>Red Hat's nash was part of its "mkinitrd" package, replacement for a shell |
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594 and utilities on the boot floppy back in the 1990's (the same general idea |
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595 as BusyBox, developed independently). Red Hat discontinued nash development |
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596 in 2010, replacing it with dracut (which collects together existing packages, |
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597 including busybox).</p> |
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599 <p>I couldn't figure out how to beat source code out of |
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600 <a href=http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/git/mkinitrd>Fedora's current git</a> |
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601 repository. The last release version that used it was Fedora Core 12 |
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602 which has <a href=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/source/SRPMS/mkinitrd-6.0.93-1.fc12.src.rpm>a source rpm</a> |
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603 that can be unwound with "rpm2cpio mkinitrd.src.rpm | cpio -i -d -H newc |
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604 --no-absolute-filenames" and in there is a mkinitrd-6.0.93.tar.bz2 which |
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605 has the source.</p> |
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607 <p>In addition to being a bit like a command shell, the nash man page lists the |
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608 following commands:</p> |
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610 <blockquote><p> |
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611 access echo find losetup mkdevices mkdir mknod mkdmnod mkrootdev mount |
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612 pivot_root readlink raidautorun setquiet showlabels sleep switchroot umount |
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613 </p></blockquote> |
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615 <p>Oddly, the only occurrence of the string pivot_root in the nash source code |
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616 is in the man page, the command isn't there. (It seems to have been removed |
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617 when the underscoreless switchroot went in.)</p> |
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619 <p>A more complete list seems to be the handlers[] array in nash.c:</p> |
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621 <blockquote><p> |
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622 access buildEnv cat cond cp daemonize dm echo exec exit find kernelopt |
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623 loadDrivers loadpolicy mkchardevs mkblktab mkblkdevs mkdir mkdmnod mknod |
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624 mkrootdev mount netname network null plymouth hotplug killplug losetup |
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625 ln ls raidautorun readlink resume resolveDevice rmparts setDeviceEnv |
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626 setquiet setuproot showelfinterp showlabels sleep stabilized status switchroot |
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627 umount waitdev |
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628 </p></blockquote> |
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630 <p>This list is nuts: "plymouth" is an alias for "null" which is basically |
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631 "true" (which thie above list doesn't have). Things like buildEnv and |
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632 loadDrivers are bespoke Red Hat behavior that might as well be hardwired in |
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633 to nash's main() without being called.</p> |
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635 <p>Instead of eliminating items |
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636 from the list with an explanation for each, I'm just going to cherry pick |
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637 a few: the device mapper (dm, raidautorun) is probably interesting, |
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638 hotplug (may be obsolete due to kernel changes that now load firmware |
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639 directly), and another "resume" ala klibc.</p> |
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641 <p>But mostly: I don't care about this one. And neither does Red Hat anymore.</p> |
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643 <p>Verdict: ignore</p> |
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645 <hr /> |
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646 <a name=beastiebox /> |
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647 <h2>Beastiebox</h2> |
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649 <p>Back in 2008, the BSD guys vented some busybox-envy |
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650 <a href=http://beastiebox.sourceforge.net>on sourceforge</a>. Then stopped. |
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651 Their repository is still in CVS, hasn't been touched in years, it's a giant |
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652 hairball of existing code sucked together. (The web page says the author |
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654 a collection of new code, it's a katamari of existing code rolled up in a |
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655 ball.)</p> |
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657 <p>Combining the set of commands listed on the web page with the set of |
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658 man pages in the source gives us:</P> |
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660 <blockquote><p> |
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661 [ cat chmod cp csh date df disklabel dmesg echo ex fdisk fsck fsck_ffs getty |
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662 halt hostname ifconfig init kill less lesskey ln login ls lv mksh more mount |
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663 mount_ffs mv pfctl ping poweroff ps reboot rm route sed sh stty sysctl tar test |
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664 traceroute umount vi wiconfig |
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665 </p></blockquote> |
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667 <p>Apparently lv is the missing link ed and vi, copyright 1982-1997 (do not |
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668 want), ex is another obsolete vi mode, lesskey is "used to |
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669 specify a set of key bindings to be used with less", and csh is a shell they |
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670 sucked in, [ is an alias for test. Several more bsd-isms that don't have Linux |
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671 equivalents (even in the ubuntu "install this package" search) are |
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672 disklabel, fsck_ffs, mount_ffs, and pfctl. And wiconfig is a wavelan interface |
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673 network card driver utility. Subtracting all that and the commands toybox |
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674 already implements at triage time, we get:</p> |
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676 <blockquote><p> |
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677 <span id=beastiebox_cmd> |
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678 fdisk fsck getty halt ifconfig init kill less mksh more mount mv ping poweroff |
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679 ps reboot route sed sh stty sysctl tar test traceroute umount vi |
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680 </span> |
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681 </p></blockquote> |
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683 <p>Not a hugely interesting list, but eh.</p> |
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685 <p>Verdict: ignore</p> |
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687 <hr /> |
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688 <a name=BsdBox /> |
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689 <h2>BsdBox</h2> |
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690 |
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691 <p>Somebody decided to do a <a href=https://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/BsdBox>multicall binary for freebsd</a>.</p> |
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693 <p>They based it on crunchgen, a tool that glues existing programs together |
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694 into an archive and uses the name to execute the right one. It has no |
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695 simplification or code sharing benefits whatsoever, it's basically an |
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696 archiver that produces executables.</p> |
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698 <p>That's about where I stopped reading.</p> |
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700 <p>Verdict: ignore.</p> |
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702 <hr /> |
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703 <a name=slowaris /> |
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704 <h2>OpenSolaris Busybox</h2> |
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706 <p>Somebody <a href=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+busybox/>wrote |
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707 a wiki page</a> saying that Busybox for OpenSolaris would be a good idea.</p> |
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709 <p>The corresponding "files" tab is an auto-generated stub. The project never |
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710 even got as far as suggesting commands to include before Oracle discontinued |
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711 OpenSolaris.</p> |
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713 <p>Verdict: ignore.</p> |
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715 <hr /> |
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716 <h2>Requests:</h2> |
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718 <p>The following additional commands have been requested by various users:</p> |
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719 <blockquote><b> |
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721 dig freeramdisk getty halt hexdump hwclock klogd modprobe ping ping6 pivot_root |
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722 poweroff readahead rev sfdisk sudo syslogd taskset telnet telnetd tracepath |
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723 traceroute unzip usleep vconfig zip free login modinfo unshare netcat help w |
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724 ntpd iwconfig iwlist rdate |
1205 | 725 dos2unix unix2dos catv clear |
726 pmap realpath setsid timeout truncate | |
727 mkswap swapon swapoff | |
728 count oneit fstype | |
729 acpi blkid eject pwdx | |
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730 </span> |
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731 </b></blockquote> |
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733 <!-- #include "footer.html" --> |
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