Am 07.05.2011 13:40, schrieb Sven Mascheck: > I am searching busybox ash documentation but haven't found any [1]. > (and I can't find any definitive statement that there's none, either.) > > How do I find out about the changes which have been made to the dash > which it was originally derived from - apart from wading through the > git logs? I'm both interested in fixes and features [2]. > > Are poeple supposed to find out about the very features by try&error, > or by reading other ash manuals, and the opengroup specs?
Yes, > Are bash features only added to minimize surprises, that is, to grok > existing scripts, and not so much to be used "as documented"? > (how to debug subtle problems then?) > ash tries to be POSIX shell, ntl the real world uses things like BASH they expect certain things simply to work. > Cheers > -Sven > > [1] It's listed among the "currently available applets" > in http://busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html and the source, > but apparently it's the only applet without documentation. > yes, ash you may know that literate programming never entered mainstream and so documentation is a bit sparse. But bb tries to avoid inventing features that are not included in the POSIX specs and so you can rely on that. (please report missing features). re, wh > I've searched this mailing list and only found > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2007-June/thread.html#62058 > > [2] http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/ash/ > _______________________________________________ > busybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox > > _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
