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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: [BusyBox] patch: awk segfaults on export of empty env vars
From:       Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt () recycle ! lbl ! gov>
Date:       2004-11-23 3:34:39
Message-ID: 20041122193439.A24915 () recycle ! lbl ! gov
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On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 08:54:42PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 22 November 2004 06:53 pm, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> >
> > > Now I just have to finish rewriting [sort, gzip, gunzip, ar, comm,
> > > patch, bzip2, sh, diff, man, and init].
> 
> And busybox really needs cpio if I'm going to make initramfs images for use 
> with the 2.6 kernel...
> 
> > So in a few years, between you, D. J. Bernstein, and the GNU project,
> > we will have three independent rewrites of Unix.    ;-)
> 
> I'm not doing much, I doubt even 5% of busybox is my code, and I think my 
> contributions to uclibc have been at most bug reports.
> 
> Didn't you notice that an important part of open source development is forking 
> a big bloated project (or more often starting over) to make a smaller and 
> simpler version?  How do you think mozilla->galeon->firefox happened?  Or 
> dropbear?  Or tcc?

Oh, I notice all right.  And indeed I heartily approve: besides busybox,
see my efforts on Boa (not Apache) and ntpclient (not xntpd).  My window
manager of choice is evilwm, etc.

That doesn't keep me from having a sense of humor, and giving you a poke in
the ribs when the opportunity arises.

       - Larry


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