Busybox overview
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 nicenesssetfont
Jed: put it back, console mode may work better with itshowkey
Jed: leave it out, we already have oneinit
Jed: leave it out!! we use sysvinitfreeramdisk
Jed: put it back, just in casefbsplash
Jed: put it back, we may be using itwget
Jed: leave it out, we already have oneminix-related components
Jed: leave them out...handling of various kernel module files
Jed: put it backkernel 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 onemesg
Jed: remove it, seems useless and maybe even dangerouspasswd
Jed: remove it, dom0 has one and I don't see why initramfs would use thatfilesystem 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 loginlsmod
Jed: we already have onemodprobe
Jed: we already have oneless
Jed: we already have onesu