Busybox

[Daniele Forsi]

2006/8/18, Malcolm wrote:
> On 8/18/06, Amadeus wrote:
>
> > why are the individual busybox programs not links to the busybox binary?
>
> They are links.
>
> Why are they hard links and not symlinks?

symbolic links cannot be copied on a FAT filesystem (e.g. a MiniSD)
you get error "Operation not permitted"

> There is only one copy of the busybox binary in the romfs.

that's right, but the builds that use a FAT filesystem cannot avoid
getting duplicate files (not a big problem, since RAM build takes
~40MB)

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Ciao,
Daniele