On Wednesday, 31 August 2016 3:54:10 PM AEST Morrie Wyatt via luv-main wrote: > Unfortunately the answer is that they are using a whole > brace of symlinks to busybox.
I'm aware of that. But it's not required that they do so and it would be easy to use coreutils and findutils. It would just cost a little more storage space. On a recent Debian AMD64 system Coreutils is less than 15M uncompressed (I think that the phones all use JFFS2 for compression) and with man pages. > Added is the fact that Google/Apple/Microsoft/Manufacturers > don't actually want people to be able to play "under the hood". > They want you to do things their way, with their latest bright > and shiny abomination. Actually Google do want people to do things with their own phones, that's why they have Nexus phones which are good for such things. It's one of the the competitive advantages over Apple and MS. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
