Adding bash support to hush: the todo list.

[Rob Landley]

On Sunday 16 May 2010 21:55:54 Matthew Stoltenberg wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> > So Gentoo's portage requires bash (not just bash, but bash 3.x), and I'm
> > trying to get it to work with busybox.  At least the following would need
> > to be done to get hush to act as something like a bash replacement:
> >
> > 1) Allow "bash" alias to call hush, so #!/bin/bash to redirect to hush.
>
> diff -ru busybox-1.16.1/include/applets.h
> busybox-1.16.1.bash/include/applets.h ---
> busybox-1.16.1/include/applets.h	2010-03-28 12:43:35.000000000 -0500 +++
> busybox-1.16.1.bash/include/applets.h	2010-05-16 21:36:00.000000000 -0500
> @@ -189,6 +189,7 @@
>  IF_HOSTNAME(APPLET(hostname, _BB_DIR_BIN, _BB_SUID_DROP))
>  IF_HTTPD(APPLET(httpd, _BB_DIR_USR_SBIN, _BB_SUID_DROP))
>  IF_HUSH(APPLET(hush, _BB_DIR_BIN, _BB_SUID_DROP))
> +IF_HUSH(APPLET_ODDNAME(bash, hush, _BB_DIR_BIN, _BB_SUID_DROP, hush))
>  IF_HWCLOCK(APPLET(hwclock, _BB_DIR_SBIN, _BB_SUID_DROP))
>  IF_ID(APPLET(id, _BB_DIR_USR_BIN, _BB_SUID_DROP))
>  IF_IFCONFIG(APPLET(ifconfig, _BB_DIR_SBIN, _BB_SUID_DROP))
>
> Is there any more work involved than that one line?  Did a simple
> chroot test and it seems to have worked.
>
> Matt

We probably want some kind of config option for the alias, so bash and busybox 
can easily be installed side by side without interfering with each other.

Rob
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