nsupdate, brctl

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Monday 24 September 2007 13:10, Ralf Friedl wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> If not, should it be included? 
> >>     
> > anything that "should" be in busybox already is ... anything beyond that (like 
> > what you want) is merely left up to people to contribute ... if it doesnt 
> > suck and is generally useful, it'll get added ... if it bitrots and/or sucks, 
> > it'll get dropped
> >   
> What I wanted to say is this:
> I want something like nsupdate, and I want it to be much smaller that 1MB.

1 MB is out of the question.

Entire busybox 1.7.1, linked statically against uclibc, is smaller.

> Now I can write something that does just the updates I want to do, or I 
> could add some input parsing and turn it into a generic program like 
> nsupdate.
> 
> The question is, would you include a nsupdate applet or not? If you 
> think it doesn't belong to busybox, it would make no sense for me to 
> write a generic program.

Yes, it can be accepted. Especially if you will read a few other
applets' source in order to get the idea how busybox typically
manages to reduce code size.

> A related question, do you think it would be useful to have a brctl 
> utility in busybox to configure Linux network bridges? The standalone 
> brctl is about 40k, so I don't know whether there is much space to be 
> saved by including it, but it might be convenient to have it if the 
> network setup includes bridges.

Yes, it would be useful.
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