On Wednesday 20 October 2010 01:23, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:18:43 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 October 2010 22:33, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> > > [Sorry, the previous mail seems to have been eaten by the smarthost,
> > > apologies if it comes twice.]
> > >
> > > function old new delta
> > > add_shell_main - 459 +459
> > > .rodata 50375 50495 +120
> > > chomp - 24 +24
> > > applet_names 920 943 +23
> > > packed_usage 1640 1661 +21
> > > applet_main 1232 1248 +16
> > > applet_nameofs 308 312 +4
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > (add/remove: 4/0 grow/shrink: 5/0 up/down: 667/0) Total: 667
> > > bytes
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
> >
> > This seems to be trivially scriptable in sh.
> >
> > Why do you need it? (I ask because sometimes there _is_ a valid,
> > but unknown to me, reason to have this or that tool in bbox).
>
> Well, I like my busybox to be a real swiss army knife, so that I can
> grab it, compile it and put a single binary to where I need it and
> have all the tools that I need in that binary. (as opposed to dragging
> scripts and their dependencies around) And sometimes the only thing
> that you can rely on a system is a statically linked busybox.
>
> Also, I would like to see busybox as a potential replacement for the
> base GNU tools in a desktop system one day. Adding applets that you
> don't necessarily have to compile in, but that get busybox closer to
> being all-in-one drop-in replacement is something worth doing, imo.
>
> Other than that, I try to avoid shell scripting if I can help it and
> my script-foo is not good enough to produce a tolerably good version
> of add/remove-shell in 667 bytes. A C implementation is something
> that I'm willing to work on, though.
Ah, so there _are_ such tools (add-shell and remove-shell)
in standard Linux repertoire! I didn't know it.
Do you provide compatible behavior?
Maybe it makes sense to do
default y if DESKTOP
(IIRC this syntax is supported in Config files)
to placate "true" embedded guys who undoubtedly won't like proliferation
of "stupid applets which should be shell scripts"?
--
vda
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