Busybox replacement - Revision history

Tim Bird at 19:23, 1 March 2012

2012-03-01T19:23:50Z

Tim Bird at 19:23, 1 March 2012

2012-03-01T19:23:15Z

Mirabilos: mention that beastiebox commands _can_ be disabled, and things like pfctl should, since people misjudge my intent

2012-03-01T19:05:31Z

mention that beastiebox commands _can_ be disabled, and things like pfctl should, since people misjudge my intent

Landley: Move the toybox material to a page where some project that wants to bring BSD's fsck_ffs and pfctl to Android won't randomly insert itself before everything else.

2012-02-23T12:09:12Z

Move the toybox material to a page where some project that wants to bring BSD's fsck_ffs and pfctl to Android won't randomly insert itself before everything else.

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Mirabilos: Add Beastiebox here as well; argument for using mksh as shell

2012-02-08T18:40:05Z

Add Beastiebox here as well; argument for using mksh as shell

Tim Bird: /* Prioritization */

2012-01-26T22:22:12Z

‎Prioritization

Tim Bird: /* Use case: replacing Toolbox commands */

2012-01-26T22:03:56Z

‎Use case: replacing Toolbox commands

Tim Bird: /* Full toolbox command set */

2012-01-26T22:01:46Z

‎Full toolbox command set

Tim Bird: /* Full toolbox command set */

2012-01-26T22:01:26Z

‎Full toolbox command set

Tim Bird: /* Standard commands */

2012-01-26T22:01:17Z

‎Standard commands

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 This would be for a toolbox complement.
-= Other multi-tool programs =
+== Other multi-tool programs ==
-== Beastiebox currently implements ==
+=== Beastiebox currently implements ===
 Here’s a link to the Beastiebox project: http://beastiebox.sourceforge.net/
 which has been proven to be capable to replace busybox, in general.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-The Toybox material has moved to http://landley.net/toybox/roadmap.html
+== Toybox ==
-== Beastiebox currently implements ==
+The Toybox material previously on this page
-Here’s a link to the Beastiebox project: http://beastiebox.sourceforge.net/
+has been moved to http://landley.net/toybox/roadmap.html
-which has been proven to be capable to replace busybox, in general.
-It mostly consists of BSD sources and contains, according to the homepage:
-−
-  [ cat chmod cp date df disklabel dmesg ex fdisk fsck fsck_ffs
-  getty halt hostname ifconfig init kill less ln login ls [https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm mksh] more
-  mount mount_ffs mv pfctl ping poweroff ps reboot rm route sed sh
-  stty sysctl tar test traceroute umount vi wiconfig
-−
-Of course, every command is optional; for example, pfctl is currently BSD specific, and fsck_ffs/mount_ffs do not make much sense on Linux either, so these would be disabled in a Linux build of Beastiebox.
-−
-On the TODO side, the Linux specific commands would need to be implemented
-or taken from one of the others (Toybox, Android Toolbox, etc).
-−
-It does contain a complete shell (mksh, MirBSD Korn Shell) under a BSD-ish
-licence, which can be used as /bin/sh (e.g. on Debian) and is the default
-/system/bin/sh on Android ICS and later, even. This is not much bigger than
-the sh included with Busybox, Beastiebox (can be disabled in favour of mksh)
-and others, but has functions such as command line editing, UTF-8 support,
-Tab completion, Korn Shell scripting features ('''[[''', arrays, etc). and is
-actively developed on its own.
 === Sony CE Linux (internal distribution) 1.13.4 build ===
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 This would be for a toolbox complement.
 == Random Notes ==

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    mount mount_ffs mv pfctl ping poweroff ps reboot rm route sed sh
    stty sysctl tar test traceroute umount vi wiconfig
 On the TODO side, the Linux specific commands would need to be implemented

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	Plus additional to-be-determined shell functionality.		Plus additional to-be-determined shell functionality.
		+
		+	== Beastiebox currently implements ==
		+	Here’s a link to the Beastiebox project: http://beastiebox.sourceforge.net/
		+	which has been proven to be capable to replace busybox, in general.
		+	It mostly consists of BSD sources and contains, according to the homepage:
		+
		+	[ cat chmod cp date df disklabel dmesg ex fdisk fsck fsck_ffs
		+	getty halt hostname ifconfig init kill less ln login ls [https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm mksh] more
		+	mount mount_ffs mv pfctl ping poweroff ps reboot rm route sed sh
		+	stty sysctl tar test traceroute umount vi wiconfig
		+
		+	On the TODO side, the Linux specific commands would need to be implemented
		+	or taken from one of the others (Toybox, Android Toolbox, etc).
		+
		+	It does contain a complete shell (mksh, MirBSD Korn Shell) under a BSD-ish
		+	licence, which can be used as /bin/sh (e.g. on Debian) and is the default
		+	/system/bin/sh on Android ICS and later, even. This is not much bigger than
		+	the sh included with Busybox, Beastiebox (can be disabled in favour of mksh)
		+	and others, but has functions such as command line editing, UTF-8 support,
		+	Tab completion, Korn Shell scripting features ('''[[''', arrays, etc). and is
		+	actively developed on its own.

	== Toybox currently implements ==		== Toybox currently implements ==

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 Must-have unimplemented: The following list has Tim's must-have commands,
-which are currently not implemented in toybox:
+which are currently (as of Jan, 2012) not implemented in toybox:
   chgrp chmod chown date dd
   expr find grep head id kill ln

@@ Line 91: / Line 91: @@
   cat chmod chown cmp cp date dd df dmesg
-  hd id ifconfig iftop insmod ioctl ionice
+  id ifconfig iftop insmod ioctl ionice
   kill ln ls lsmod lsof
   mkdir mount mv netstat newfs_msdos notify
@@ Line 101: / Line 101: @@
 SUSv4):
-   alarm schedtop getprop log setprop watchprops notify wipe
+   alarm hd getevent getprop ioctl log nandread notify
-   getevent sendevent nandread smd setconsole r ioctl
+   r schedtop sendevent setconsole setprop smdwatchprops wipe
 == Busybox commands ==

@@ Line 77: / Line 77: @@
   cat		chmod		chown		cmp		cp
   date		dd		df		dmesg		getevent
-  getprop	hd		id		ifconfig	iftop
+  getprop        hd		id		ifconfig	iftop
   insmod		ioctl		kill		ln		log
   ls		lsmod		mkdir		mount		mv

@@ Line 86: / Line 86: @@
   toolbox	top		umount		vmstat		watchprops
   wipe
 === Standard commands ===

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 == Use case: replacing Toolbox commands ==
 === Standard commands ===
 Toolbox in Android (what version?) implements the following standard commands:
-  cat chmod chown cmp cp date dd dmesg df hd
+  cat chmod chown cmp cp date dd df dmesg
-  id ifconfig iftop insmod ioctl ionice
+  hd id ifconfig iftop insmod ioctl ionice
-  kill netstat ln ls lsmod lsof
+  kill ln ls lsmod lsof
-  mkdir mount mv newfs_msdos notify
+  mkdir mount mv netstat newfs_msdos notify
   ps printenv reboot renice rm rmdir rmmod route
   sleep start stop sync top umount uptime vmstat