It is the asmutils mv, which is significantly smaller than the busybox one.
It really only does a relink, the gnu move (or probably the busybox one, too) will do a cp if it finds the file is moving across filesystems. The asmutils mv will only mv *within* the same filesystem. It would probably be at minimum worth it to improve the error handling... -Tom On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, John Lumby wrote: > Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:50:51 -0500 > From: John Lumby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: version of diff / diff3 for libc5? - and what about mv? > > Thanks Robert - very useful to know. > > Anyway - this morning - jelsrtbt 2.0.114 up and running on my laptop with > gigabit ethernet, mouse, and diff, and everything else in 2.0.103 - and 147 > sectors free! (**) Amazing! > > One question I have been meaning to ask for a while - concerning mv - the > version of mv in tomsrtbt seems odd to me. I'm not quite certain exactly > what, but I think sometimes it does as expected, sometimes it does something > but not as expected, and other times nothing at all; but at all times it > always returns rc 0 and no error msg. It appears to be a real binary > (ELF) executable, not a busyboxlet and not a lua/ash script. Yet busybox > doc says it can provide mv. So this tomsrtbt mv is maybe also wasting some > space? Anyone know the semantics of this mv? Source? Why we don't > use busybox? I'm thinking of replacing/re-building it ... > > John > > (**) after pruning unneeded functions from the kernel > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: Robert de Bath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: John Lumby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] version of diff / diff3 for libc5? > Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:58:57 +0000 (GMT) > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, John Lumby wrote: > > >Thanks Tom. cmp is sometimes all I need but it doesn't actually show the > >diff, only a boolean and an offset (or can it be told to do so?). I > >need to be able to see what's different. Anyway, I had another go at > >diffutils, using the 2.7 source, and was able to compile that for libc5. > >Will it fit though? ... (Have to wait until next time I can shut down to > >find out). > > Just a small note for next time; I find the debian archive is a good > place for tomsrtbt compatible binaries. > http://ftp.debian.org/debian-archive/dists/ > > You want the 1.3.1 version for libc5 stuff. > To unwrap a *.deb without 'dpkg' you can use alien(1) or ar(1) plus tgz. > > -- > Rob. (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>) > <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday> > >
