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Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT).
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1 <!--#include file="header.html" -->
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2 <title>Toybox Roadmap</title>
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4 <h2>Goals and use cases</h2>
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6 <p>We have several potential use cases for a new set of command line
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7 utilities, and are using those to determine which commands to implement
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8 for Toybox's 1.0 release.</p>
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10 <p>Our current candidate list combines the commands toybox already implements,
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11 the development environment command list, the toolbox standard commands,
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12 various vendor configurations of busybox, a selected subset of the SUSv4
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13 standard, a couple of the less-insane bits of LSB, a few outright requests,
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14 plus additional to-be-determined shell functionality.</p>
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16 <p>See the <a href=status.html>status page</a> for the combined list
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17 and progress towards implementing it.</p>
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19 <hr />
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20 <a name="standards">
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21 <h2>Use case: standards compliance.</h2>
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23 <h3><a name=susv4 /><a href="#susv4">POSIX-2008/SUSv4</a></h3>
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24 <p>The best standards are the kind that describe reality, rather than
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25 attempting to impose a new one. (I.E. a good standard should document, not
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26 legislate.)</p>
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28 <p>The kind of standards which describe existing reality tend to be approved by
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29 more than one standards body, such ANSI and ISO both approving C. That's why
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30 the IEEE POSIX committee's 2008 standard, the Single Unix Specification version
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31 4, and the Open Group Base Specification edition 7 are all the same standard
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32 from three sources.</p>
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34 <p>The <a href="http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/idx/utilities.html">"utilities"
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35 section</a>
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36 of these standards is devoted to the unix command line, and are the best such
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37 standard for our purposes. (My earlier work on BusyBox was implemented with
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38 regard to SUSv3, an earlier version of this standard.)</p>
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40 <h3>Problems with the standard</h3>
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42 <p>Unfortunately, these standards describe a subset of reality, lacking any
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43 mention of commands such as init, login, or mount required to actually boot a
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44 system. It provides ipcrm and ipcs, but not ipcmk, so you can use System V IPC
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45 resources but not create them.</p>
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47 <p>These standards also contain a large number of commands that are
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48 inappropriate for toybox to implement in its 1.0 release. (Perhaps some of
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49 these could be reintroduced in later releases, but not now.)</p>
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51 <p>Starting with the full "utilities" list, we first remove generally obsolete
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52 commands (compess ed ex pr uncompress uccp uustat uux), commands for the
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53 pre-CVS "SCCS" source control system (admin delta get prs rmdel sact sccs unget
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54 val what), fortran support (asa fort77), and batch processing support (batch
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55 qalter qdel qhold qmove qmsg qrerun qrls qselect qsig qstat qsub).</p>
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57 <p>Some commands are for a compiler toolchain (ar c99 cflow ctags cxref gencat
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58 iconv lex m4 make nm strings strip tsort yacc), which is outside of toybox's
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59 mandate and should be supplied externally. (Again, some of these may be
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60 revisited later, but not for toybox 1.0.)</p>
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62 <p>Some commands are part of a command shell, and cannot be implemented as
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63 separate executables (alias bg cd command fc fg getopts hash jobs kill read
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64 type ulimit umask unalias wait). These may be revisited as part of a built-in
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65 toybox shell, but are not exported into $PATH via symlinks. (If you fork a
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66 child process and have it "cd" then exit, you've accomplished nothing.)</p>
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68 <p>A few other commands are judgement calls, providing command-line
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69 internationalization support (iconv locale localedef), System V inter-process
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70 communication (ipcrm ipcs), and cross-tty communication from the minicomputer
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71 days (talk mesg write). The "pax" utility was supplanted by tar, "mailx" is
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72 a command line email client, and "lp" submits files for printing to... what
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73 exactly? (cups?) The standard defines crontab but not crond.</p>
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75 <p>Removing all of that leaves the following commands, which toybox should
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76 implement:</p>
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78 <blockquote><b>
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79 <span id=posix>
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80 at awk basename bc cal cat chgrp chmod chown cksum cmp comm cp
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81 csplit cut date dd df diff dirname du echo env expand expr false file find
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82 fold fuser getconf grep head id join kill link ln logger logname ls man
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83 mkdir mkfifo more mv newgrp nice nl nohup od paste patch pathchk printf ps
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84 pwd renice rm rmdir sed sh sleep sort split stty tabs tail tee test time
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85 touch tput tr true tty uname unexpand uniq unlink uudecode uuencode vi wc
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86 who xargs zcat
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87 </span>
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88 </b></blockquote>
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90 <h3><a name=sigh /><a href="#sigh">Linux Standard Base</a></h3>
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92 <p>One attempt to supplement POSIX towards an actual usable system was the
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93 Linux Standard Base. Unfortunately, the quality of this "standard" is
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94 fairly low.</p>
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96 <p>POSIX allowed its standards process to be compromised
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97 by leaving things out, thus allowing IBM mainframes and Windows NT to drive
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98 a truck through the holes and declare themselves compilant. But it means what
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99 they DID standardize tends to be respected.</p>
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101 <p>The Linux Standard Base's failure mode is different, they respond to
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102 pressure by including special-case crap, such as allowing Red Hat to shoehorn
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103 RPM on the standard even though all sorts of distros (from Debian to Slackware)
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104 don't use it and probably never will. This means anything in the LSB is
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105 at best a suggestion: arbitrary portions of this standard are widely
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106 ignored.</p>
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108 <p>The LSB does specify a <a href=http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_4.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/cmdbehav.html>list of command line
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109 utilities</a>:</p>
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112 ar at awk batch bc chfn chsh col cpio crontab df dmesg du echo egrep
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113 fgrep file fuser gettext grep groupadd groupdel groupmod groups
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114 gunzip gzip hostname install install_initd ipcrm ipcs killall lpr ls
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115 lsb_release m4 md5sum mknod mktemp more mount msgfmt newgrp od passwd
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116 patch pidof remove_initd renice sed sendmail seq sh shutdown su sync
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117 tar umount useradd userdel usermod xargs zcat
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118 </b></blockquote>
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120 <p>Where posix specifies one of those commands, LSB's deltas tend to be
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121 accomodations for broken tool versions which aren't up to date with the
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122 standard yet. (See <a href=http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_4.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/more.html>more</a> and <a href=http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_4.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/xargs.html>xargs</a>
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125 <p>Since we've already committed to using our own judgement to skip bits of
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126 POSIX, and LSB's "judgement" in this regard is purely bug workarounds to declare
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127 various legacy tool implementations "compliant", this means we're mostly
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128 interested in the set of tools that aren't specified in posix at all.</p>
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130 <p>Of these, gettext and msgfmt are internationalization, install_initd and
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131 remove_initd aren't present on ubuntu 10.04, lpr is out of scope, and
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132 lsb_release is a distro issue (it's a nice command, but the output of
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133 lsb_release -a is the name and version number of the linux distro you're
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134 running, which toybox doesn't know).</p>
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191 <p>Toolbox doesn't have its own repository, instead it's part of Android's
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193 git repository</a> (this analysis looked at commit 51ccef27cab58).</p>
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195 <h3>Toolbox commands:</h3>
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197 <p>According to core/toolbox/Android.mk the toolbox directory builds the
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201 ls mount cat ps kill ln insmod rmmod lsmod ifconfig setconsole
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202 rm mkdir rmdir reboot getevent sendevent date wipe sync umount
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203 start stop notify cmp dmesg route hd dd df getprop setprop watchprops
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204 log sleep renice printenv smd chmod chown newfs_msdos netstat ioctl
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208 <p>If selinux is enabled, you also get:</p>
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210 getenforce setenforce chcon restorecon runcon getsebool setsebool load_policy
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213 <p>The Android.mk file also refers to dynarray.c and toolbox.c as library
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222 <h3>Command shell (ash)</h3>
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224 <p>The core/sh subdirectory contains a fork of ash 1.17, and sucks in
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227 <h3>Other Android core commands</h3>
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229 <p>Other than the toolbox and sh directories, the currently interesting
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230 subdirectories in the core repository are fs_mgr, gpttool, init,
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231 logcat, logwrapper, mkbootimg, netcfg, run-as, and sdcard.</p>
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233 <ul>
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234 <li><b>fs_mgr</b> - subset of mount</li>
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235 <li><b>gpttool</b> - subset of fdisk</li>
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236 <li><b>init</b> - Android's PID 1</li>
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237 <li><b>logcat</b> - read android log format</li>
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238 <li><b>logwrapper</b> - redirect stdio to android log</li>
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239 <li><b>mkbootimg</b> - create signed boot image</li>
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240 <li><b>netcfg</b> - network configuration (sucks in libnetutils)</li>
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241 <li><b>run-as</b> - subset of sudo</li>
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242 <li><b>sdcard</b> - FUSE wrapper to squash UID/GID/permissions to what FAT supports.</li>
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245 <p>Almost all of these reinvent an existing wheel with less functionality and a
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250 <p>Although logcat/logwrapper also reinvent a wheel, Android did so in the
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253 <p>Also, gpttool and mkbootimg are install tools, and sdcard looks like a
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257 <h3>Analysis</h3>
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262 alarm ash cat chcon chmod chown cmp date dd df dmesg exists fs_mgr getenforce
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263 getevent getprop getsebool gpttool hd id ifconfig iftop init insmod ioctl
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264 ionice kill ln load_policy log logcat logwrapper ls lsmod lsof lsusb md5
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265 mkbootimg mkdir mount mv nandread netcfg netstat newfs_msdos notify printenv
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267 runcon schedtop sdcard sendevent setconsole setenforce setkey setprop setsebool
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268 sleep smd start stop sync syren top touch umount uptime vmstat watchprops wipe
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271 <p>We may eventually implement all of that, but for toybox 1.0 we need to
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273 commands except lsusb, and grab just logcat and logwrapper from the "core"
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275 functionality, which we can implement a shim interface for later).</p>
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277 <p>This means toybox should implement:</p>
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278 <blockquote><b>
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280 cat chmod chown cmp date dd df dmesg getevent getprop hd id ifconfig iftop
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281 insmod ioctl ionice kill ln log logcat logwrapper ls lsmod lsof lsusb md5 mkdir
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282 mount mv nandread
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283 netstat newfs_msdos notify printenv ps r reboot renice rm rmdir rmmod route
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284 schedtop sendevent setconsole setprop sleep smd start stop sync top touch
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285 umount uptime vmstat watchprops wipe
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286 </span>
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287 <b></blockquote>
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289 <p>The following Toolbox commands are already covered in previous
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290 sections of this analysis:</p>
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292 <blockquote><b>
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293 cat chmod chown cmp date dd df dmesg id ifconfig insmod kill ln ls lsmod
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294 mkdir mount mv ps renice rm rmdir rmmod route sleep sync top touch umount
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295 </b></blockquote>
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297 <p>Which leaves the following commands as new from Toolbox:</p>
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299 <blockquote><b>
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300 getevent getprop hd iftop ioctl ionice log lsof nandread netstat
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301 newfs_msdos notify printenv r reboot schedtop sendevent setconsole
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302 setprop smd start stop top uptime vmstat watchprops wipe
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306 <h2>Requests:</h2>
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311 freeramdisk getty halt hexdump hwclock klogd modprobe ping ping6 pivot_root
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