On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 11:48:13PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > > removing ar along i imagine would not gain very much, but then again > > we need every byte we can get. > > For the current set of busybox applets, I've made a best guess as > to what is likely to be needed. If somone can find some applets > that are unused, I'm more then happy to axe them. see my patch, yes, basename, and dirname are in use by debootstrap, but i think its not unreasonable to change debootstrap to not use them. especially dirname and basename, those are such trivial shell substitutions. BASENAME="${somevar##*/}" DIRNAME="${somevar%/*}" > > that is more risky, debootstrap and the powerpc bootloader > > installer/configurator are writtin in /bin/sh, so the busybox version > > MUST be at least as good as real ash. > > I consider it a full replacement, and with have now had several releases > with the busybox ash shell. There are no known bugs... but has anyone actually done any regression testing of posix shell scripts on it? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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