Paul Tomblin wrote:
busybox is a "do everything" application that's used a lot in rescue disks and those mini-distros (I used to use a 486 running LRP as my router - it booted off a floppy and the machine had no hard disk or CD ROM in it). It looks at its argv[0] to see how it was invoked to see what it's supposed to do. The idea is that instead of having a bunch of applications, dynamic libraries and a dynamic loader, you have one statically linked application so you don't have the overhead of dynamic loading but you also only need one copy of the libraries.
Unfortunately a lot of the busybox versions of these applications are really stripped down to minimal functionality.
That makes sense.
Thank you Paul for taking the time to give me a detailed answer! Cheers,
Hervé
