[BusyBox] Kernel compiling with busybox
Bernd Petrovitsch
bernd at gams.at
Tue Mar 11 08:59:44 UTC 2003
Sean Graham <sgraham at rogers.com> wrote:
>(2.2.16) on a system based off of busybox (BasicLinux 2.01). It turns out
>that (apparently?) some of the tools that busybox implements are not done
>in the same manner of the tools that they are replacing.
Yes, because the tools must be small (as a design goal). So if you
see busybox as a "smaller-and-lighter-GNU-toolset", you are definitely
wrong.
The main goal of busybox (and some others) is code size. So if there
are unnecessary features, they are not there simply because they are
unnecessary.
Bernd
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