[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Sat Jul 15 10:43:00 EDT 2023


On 2023-07-15 00:14, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 
> On 7/14/23 4:07 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> (separate executables should run under DCL, but I believe
>> some of these are shell internal commands)
> 
> bash has some builtins but other things as separate executables.  It
> sounds like busybox just has everything as a builtin.

Yes. That is the whole point of busybox. It's just one binary, that have 
all commands as built-in. Meaning you are not depending on other 
programs first of all being installed, and second, not be corrupted, 
third, not being dependent on some dynamic library that you might have.

Busybox is usually involved when you have some embedded system, or for 
the recovery tools in case your system has been corrupted or messed up, 
so that you can get back to a good state.

   Johnny




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