5 GNU Libc uses the Name Service Switch (NSS) to configure the behavior of the C
6 library for the local environment, and to configure how it reads system data,
7 such as passwords and group information. BusyBox has made it Policy that it
8 will never use NSS, and will never use and libc calls that make use of NSS.
9 This allows you to run an embedded system without the need for installing an
10 /etc/nsswitch.conf file and without and /lib/libnss_* libraries installed.
12 If you are using a system that is using a remote LDAP server for authentication
13 via GNU libc NSS, and you want to use BusyBox, then you will need to adjust the
14 BusyBox source. Chances are though, that if you have enough space to install
15 of that stuff on your system, then you probably want the full GNU utilities.
19 textutils(1), shellutils(1), etc...
23 Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
27 The following people have contributed code to BusyBox whether
33 Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
35 Tons of new stuff, major rewrite of most of the
36 core apps, tons of new apps as noted in header files.
40 John Beppu <beppu@codepoet.org>
42 du, head, nslookup, sort, tee, uniq (so Kraai could rewrite them ;-),
47 Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
49 expr, hostid, logname, tty, wc, whoami, yes
53 Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
59 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
61 fbset, ping, hostname, and mkfifo
65 Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
67 more(v2), makedevs, modularization, various fixes
71 Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov>
73 various fixes, shell rewrite
77 Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
79 cp_mv.c, the test suite, various fixes to utility.c, &c.
83 Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
89 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
95 Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
97 documentation, bugfixes
101 John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
107 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
113 Vladimir Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru>
115 cmdedit, xargs(current), httpd(current);
116 ports: ash, crond, fdisk, inetd, stty, traceroute, top;
117 locale, various fixes
118 and irreconcilable critic of everything not perfect.
122 Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com>
124 Original author of BusyBox. His code is still in many apps.
128 Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>, <crosenth@covad.com>
130 wget - Contributed by permission of Covad Communications
134 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
136 Lots of bugs fixes and patches.
140 Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
142 Remote logging feature for syslogd
146 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
148 mkswap, fsck.minix, mkfs.minix
152 Mark Whitley <markw@codepoet.org>
154 sed remix, bug fixes, style-guide, etc.
158 Charles P. Wright <cpwright@villagenet.com>
160 gzip, mini-netcat(nc)
164 Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>
166 tarcat (since removed), loadkmap, various fixes, Debian maintenance
170 Glenn Engel <glenne@engel.org>
176 # $Id: busybox_footer.pod,v 1.13 2004/03/13 08:32:14 andersen Exp $