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@@ -10,15 +10,13 @@ around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know. netkit-tiny. Per discussions on the mailing list, this isn't going to happen. False alarm. Sorry about the confusion. -* The busybox shell, lash, is really too weak for serious use, although it is - possible to run many simple systems with it. BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to - have a new shell, updated to understand full Bourne grammar. Well, that - simply didn't happen in time for the release. A rewrite is in progress - that will result in a new shell that understands the full Bourne grammar. - This new shell is being championed by Larry Doolittle - <ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov>, and could use your help. Please see the work - in progress at http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html and help - us out. +* The default busybox shell, lash, is really too weak for serious use, + although it is possible to run many simple systems with it. BusyBox + 0.52 now contains a rewritten shell, hush, which understands most + Bourne grammar, with only about a 4 Kbyte binary size penalty. You can + engage hush at pre-compile time by "ln -sf hush.c sh.c; touch hush.c". + Hush is young, and has plenty of bugs to shake out, so think twice before + using it for production systems. We welcome bug reports and patches. -Erik @@ -31,8 +29,11 @@ Possible apps to include some time: ----------- -Write a fixup_globals function to do just that right before calling -non-forking applets. Or, just always fork in the shell... +With sysvinit, reboot, poweroff and halt all used a named pipe, +/dev/initctl, to communicate with the init process. Busybox +currently uses signals to communicate with init. This makes +busybox incompatible with sysvinit. We should probably use +a named pipe as well so we can be compatible. ----------------------- |