On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 06:45:19PM -0700, William Coulter wrote:
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> busybox? What is that?
Busybox is much smaller than the combination of programs it replaces,
and thus is great for small (floppy) distros. It "masquerades" as other
programs, and performs their functions.
I don't know all the programs that busybox masquerades as. But instead
of having a copy of "grep", "cat", "iptables", and "who" (for example)
on your disk, you'd just have a single copy of busybox. If you wanted to
run "iptables", you'd call it just like you normally would, but what
would actually execute is busybox, masquerading as and doing the
functions of iptables.
Busybox typically drops support for some less commonly used options of
the programs it emulates. But it takes up less disk space and memory
ultimately.
Paul
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