[Techtalk] detecting busybox

Alison Chaiken alchaiken at gmail.com
Tue Jan 10 21:32:21 UTC 2012


"file /usr/bin/* | grep busy" is even simpler.

busybox is my favorite code to read.   You know what all the functions
in it do, some of them solve hard problems (e.g. "tail -f") and the
code is clean and simple C, unlike the Linux kernel or glibc.

Best wishes,
Alison

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