From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Thu Dec 06 2001 - 11:22:28 CET
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:38:30PM -0700, Cenobyte nicely wrote:
> What exactly is busybox?
busybox is a single multi-call binary. Even mu use busybox: you can find
it as /bin/busybox.
Many simple commands (like /bin/swapon) are simple symlinks to the /bin/busybox
file. The internal routines in busybox are able to understand the "real" name
of the calling symlink, invoching the right subroutine.
The scope: disk space redution
Michele
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