On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:10:04PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > On installation busybox creates either hardlinks for every applet or a
> > separate symlink for each applet, which means you you use around 200
> > symlinks = inodes for this. Why don't you create a single symlink
> > pointing to the absolute path of busybox and do hardlinks to the symlink
> > for the remaining applets? Would be fine if busybox could install it in
> > this way. You get the advantage of both types of linking. Flexibility
> > (you can just replace your binary without reinstalling links) and space
> > saving on filesystem (needs just 2 inodes, one for the binary and one
> > for the symlink).
> 
> You are free to create hard- or symlinks, or a combination of them
> as you please, no one says you must use "busybox --install".

"busybox --list" and "busybox --list-path" even makes this easy.

>>> Dan
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