>On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:53:56 -0400 >LM <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been looking at the code for projects like toybox, beastiebox, > Elks, the Heirloom Project at Sourceforge, etc. Think it's a really > interesting concept to use simple systems utilities that you can > understand, maintain and modify yourself instead of the standard GNU > tools. Was curious if anyone else has rolled their own basic > operating system tools or is interested in that sort of thing. I'm > looking into combining some of the tools under BSD, MIT and/or public > domain licenses from some of these sources and trying to come up with > a full suite of portable basic system utilities (enough to cover the > basics when building applications from source). Saw some similar > ideas on the Arch wiki such as base2heirloom ( > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Base2heirloom ) and base2plan9. > > Am wondering if anyone else is interested in this sort of thing. If > anyone knows of other resources besides the ones I mentioned (and > busybox), would appreciate if you'd post about them. If there are any > forums or mailing lists for this type of discussion, I'd really like > to find out about them. Would love to discuss the topic further and > possibly share code if anyone else is interested. Anyone else besides > me think this is a cool idea? > > Sincerely, > Laura > http://www.distasis.com/cpp
A few years ago I came to an idea to write my own implementation of a coreutils package. This came out as a way to fix what I saw as a bug with the `basename' command. GNU's basename will not accept a list of paths on the command line and basename them. Instead, you have to call basename once per every path as it's argument. I suppose this is because a UNIX filename can contain the newline character so there is no way to tell where in the list a path ends and a new one begins, but still. I want(ed) to have the ability to just send a huge list to it and not think about it. So I began to write, but soon ran out of free time in which to do it and that was that. However, the git repository is still sitting on my hard drive, untouched. -- Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
