On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Jim Connors <James.Connors at sun.com> wrote:
>
>> Opensolaris already has its own, much superior, version of busybox
>> based on AT&T technology, including ksh93. In terms of "bang for buck"
>> its faster, more flexible, has a CDDL and GPL compatible license, all
>> built in commands conform to POSIX standards and its available TODAY
>> in Solaris.
>>
>
> This is terrific. The question is, has busybox been incorporated into an
> "embedded" {Open}Solaris distro?
There is no embedded Opensolaris distro yet. The Opensolaris busybox
work has been incorporated into Solaris with ksh93 update 1/2
[http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/shell-discuss/2009-November/000903.html]
and replaced the following commands:
/usr/bin/cksum
/usr/bin/cmp
/usr/bin/comm
/usr/bin/cut
/usr/bin/join
/usr/bin/kill
/usr/bin/logname
/usr/bin/paste
/usr/bin/print
/usr/bin/rev
/usr/bin/sleep
/usr/bin/sum
/usr/bin/tee
/usr/bin/uniq
/usr/bin/wc
The same commands and POSIX versions of basename, cat, cp, date,
dirname, expr, fold, head, id, ln, mkfifo, mktemp, md5sum, mkdir, mv,
pathchk, printf, rm, rmdir, sha1sum, stty, tail, tty are provided as
shell built in commands
> Have the utilities it replaces been
> eliminated from that distro?
In SXCE the commands have been replaced. Look out for hard links in
/usr/bin to /usr/bin/alias.
> If so how was this done?
It was done by non-Sun contributors through the opensolaris sponsor process.
Irek
