On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 09:38 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > for those of you who do not know, busybox is a single binary which implements > the functionality of most system utils ... it does not completely implement > some features, just the most common ones, but then again sash does the same > thing :) > > details: > - busybox implements a *ton* more applets ... it can be configured to replace > over 100 system funcs while sash provides about 35 ... > - size wise, busybox would be larger, probably by about ~150k - ~200k > - busybox commands are transparent while sash requires you to prefix internal > commands with a '-' ... so running `cp` in busybox will use busybox's cp > while sash needs to run '-cp', and you can still execute the real cp by > doing /bin/cp in busybox > > feedback !?
Could this make it easier to use busybox for the actual root on a LiveCD? If so, then I'm all for it. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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