On 07/05/2012 06:41 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 17:13 +0300, Eial Czerwacki wrote: >> On 07/05/2012 02:03 PM, Laurent Bercot wrote: >>>> but these bins are large, my applet adds at most 3kb to the total size. >>> >>> My statically linked "dnsip" applet is 27 kB. This does not qualify as >>> "large" by any means on a full-fledged Unix platform (even an embedded one), >>> especially compared to the BIND "host" binary. >> >> for me it does, way to big when one can get the same behavior in a >> fraction of the size. > > That's fine but you have to understand that just because adding a new > custom applet like this to busybox would be the best for your specific > environment that doesn't mean it's the best for everyone else, or for > the busybox project as a whole. > > If it ends up that you need this particular "gethostbyname" applet as > written previously then probably you should keep it locally and continue > to patch it into your personal version of busybox. > > If you can use a getent applet instead, and one is created and added to > busybox, that would be better for everyone of course. > > Cheers! > >
I've encountered a problem under busybox in which I wasn't able to get a the ip of a machine in an exact manner on different systems, I've wrote a applet that solves it and I've pitched it up to the community, as busybox should be size optimized. offering me to use a applet that isn't even in busybox, weights 27kb where again size does matters when my small applet does the same in a fraction of the size is not logical. it is like you'll want to add -vvv to lspci and I'd advise you to use a statically linked full lspci. as I've said is previous mail, I'll think on how I can create a getent applet and pitch it up instead. Eial. _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
