On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 4:31 AM, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30 Jan 2018 04:00, Denys Vlasenko wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:50 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> >> I still wonder how on Earth Android filesystem ended up not having >> >> /bin/sh. >> >> No one at Google realized that people are using shell scripts >> >> all over the Unix universe? Or they seriously did not want people >> >> to run non-Android specific stuff on Android, and *wanted* >> >> non-android-tailored shell scripts to fail to execute? >> > >> > i think it's more like you shouldn't be running shell the vast majority of >> > the time. systemd showed the numbers to back this up. >> >> We should remove all shell scripts from e.g. kernel, gcc and busybox >> build machinery. Because systemd. Right. > > i don't know what point you're trying to make, but drop the useless > hyperbole. you asked about runtime Android, not about random dev > packages.
No, I did not ask about "runtime Android", whatever that means. Android is a Unix system, not a custom phone OS like it was the case in first generations of phones. It can be used as a general-purpose OS: it is possible to run anything Unixy in it. I personally wanted to build busybox. I run compilers, editors, git and such. It's possible. Or rather, it is possible to run anything Unixy in it _after_ you root it and fix the stupid decisions by Android devs who crippled it with incompatible file system layout for no apparent reason. _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
