Supported libcs:
- glibc-2.0.x, glibc-2.1.x, glibc-2.2.x, Linux-libc5, uClibc. People
+ glibc-2.0.x, glibc-2.1.x, glibc-2.2.x, glibc-2.3.x, uClibc. People
are looking at newlib and diet-libc, but consider them unsupported,
- untested, or worse.
+ untested, or worse. Linux-libc5 is no longer supported -- you
+ should probably use uClibc instead if you want a small C library.
Supported kernels:
- Full functionality requires Linux 2.0.x or better. A large fraction of the
+ Full functionality requires Linux 2.2.x or better. A large fraction of the
code should run on just about anything. While the current code is fairly
Linux specific, it should be fairly easy to port the majority of the code
to, say, FreeBSD or Solaris, or MacOsX, or even Windows (if you are into that
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-Shells:
-
-lash is the very smallest shell (adds just 10k) and it is quite usable as
-a command prompt, but it is not suitable for any but the most trivial
-scripting (such as an initrd that calls insmod a few times) since it does
-not understand Bourne shell grammer. It does handle pipes, redirects, and
-job control though. Adding in command editing makes it a very nice
-lightweight command prompt.
-
-hush is also quite small (just 18k) and it has very complete Bourne shell
-grammer. It handles if/then/else/fi just fine, but doesn't handle loops
-like for/do/done or case/esac and such. It also currently has a problem
-with job control. Using hush is not yet recommended.
-
-msh: The minix shell (adds just 30k) is quite complete and handles things
-like for/do/done, case/esac and all the things you expect a Bourne shell to
-do. It is not always pedantically correct about Bourne shell grammer (try
-running the shell testscript "tests/sh.testcases" on it and compare vs bash)
-but for most things it works quite well. It also uses only vfork, so it can
-be used on uClinux systems. This was only recently added, so there is still
-room to shrink it further...
-
-ash: This adds about 60k in the default configuration and is the most
-complete and most pedantically correct shell included with busybox. This
-shell was also recently added, and several people (mainly Vladimir and Erik)
-have been working on it. There are a number of configurable things at the
-top of ash.c as well, so check those out if you want to tweak things.
-
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Getting help:
When you find you need help, you can check out the BusyBox mailing list
Bugs:
If you find bugs, please submit a detailed bug report to the busybox mailing
-list at busybox@busybox.net. A well-written bug report should include a
+list at busybox@mail.busybox.net. A well-written bug report should include a
transcript of a shell session that demonstrates the bad behavior and enables
anyone else to duplicate the bug on their own machine. The following is such
an example:
- To: busybox@busybox.net
+ To: busybox@mail.busybox.net
From: diligent@testing.linux.org
Subject: /bin/date doesn't work
projects / oweals / busybox.git / blobdiff