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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] ash: make bash_source command search current directory after PATH
From:       Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2018-01-30 12:20:50
Message-ID: CAK1hOcM+KcoSeJgqcu8RtOr=049GH=wSrEcL7pEq_pHoauX-jA () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 4:31 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 30 Jan 2018 04:00, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:50 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> >> I still wonder how on Earth Android filesystem ended up not having /bin/sh.
>> >> No one at Google realized that people are using shell scripts
>> >> all over the Unix universe? Or they seriously did not want people
>> >> to run non-Android specific stuff on Android, and *wanted*
>> >> non-android-tailored shell scripts to fail to execute?
>> >
>> > i think it's more like you shouldn't be running shell the vast majority of
>> > the time. systemd showed the numbers to back this up.
>>
>> We should remove all shell scripts from e.g. kernel, gcc and busybox
>> build machinery. Because systemd. Right.
>
> i don't know what point you're trying to make, but drop the useless
> hyperbole.  you asked about runtime Android, not about random dev
> packages.

No, I did not ask about "runtime Android", whatever that means.
Android is a Unix system, not a custom phone OS like it was the case in first
generations of phones. It can be used as a general-purpose OS:
it is possible to run anything Unixy in it. I personally
wanted to build busybox. I run compilers, editors, git and such.
It's possible.

Or rather, it is possible to run anything Unixy in it
_after_ you root it and fix the stupid decisions by Android devs
who crippled it with incompatible file system layout for no apparent
reason.
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