Busybox overview

Owned by Jed

Last updated: Aug 05, 2016

1 min read

The work has been done, the lost/missing components/options that we care about have been brought back, and the unwanted ones have been removed.

Components lost with the Jethro merge

nice
Jed: put it back, we may want to set process niceness
setfont
Jed: put it back, console mode may work better with it
showkey
Jed: leave it out, we already have one
init
Jed: leave it out!! we use sysvinit
freeramdisk
Jed: put it back, just in case
fbsplash
Jed: put it back, we may be using it
wget
Jed: leave it out, we already have one
minix-related components
Jed: leave them out...
handling of various kernel module files
Jed: put it back
kernel module tainting detection
Jed: put it back
% tar
% df
% head
% mv
% rmdir
% sleep
% run-parts
% addgroup
% delgroup
% fdisk
% ifconfig
% pidof
% xargs

In bold: what's coming back

%: The program got carried over, but some of its options didn't.

Jed: put them back, they can't be that heavy and might be useful

Components added by the Jethro merge

vi
Jed: remove it, we already have one
mesg
Jed: remove it, seems useless and maybe even dangerous
passwd
Jed: remove it, dom0 has one and I don't see why initramfs would use that
filesystem implementations for mount
Jed: that's the mistery one, how did mount work before without filesystems?... Let's keep that.

In bold: what to remove

Components that where there all along but should be removed (non-exhaustive...)

login
Jed: we already have an implementation of login
lsmod
Jed: we already have one
modprobe
Jed: we already have one
less
Jed: we already have one
su