[PATCH] Make busybox an applet

Ron Yorston rmy at pobox.com
Tue May 31 18:48:00 UTC 2016


Ron Yorston wrote:
>Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>>The problem with that is currently "busyboxANYTHING"
>>is treated as "busybox" too. Making "busybox an ordinary applet
>>will break that, no?
>
>It will.  Does that matter?  It's not a feature I've ever used.

Though simply leaving the code:

# if ENABLE_BUSYBOX
	if (is_prefixed_with(name, "busybox"))
		exit(busybox_main(argv));
# endif

in run_applet_and_exit will preserve the original behaviour.  (At least
when not in standalone shell mode.)

Ron


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