Bruno Jargot wrote:
> How does BusyBox helps you to reduce the size of the current
> footprint? Its an All-in-One solution where lots of code gets shared
> between commands. And a ksh93-based BusyBox requires even less
> footprint because ksh93 uses less memory than bash.
Huh. BusyBox is orthogonal to bash. It doesn't use bash at all, IIRC,
but "ash" or some other "limited" shell.
ksh93 has a lot of code in it that is replicated across all the various
system utilities, so using it could centralize that. Whether the result
will be any smaller than the sum of the previous utilities is uncertain
to me.
ksh93 is trying to be the magic bullet to solve everyone's problems. I
find it amusing to watch folks try to cast it as the solution to
problems that nobody had before, and for which the original shell was
never intended. (In other words, ksh was never intended to be a full
featured programming environment ... its a shell scripting language, for
crying out loud! :-)
-- Garrett
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