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authorRon Yorston <rmy@pobox.com>2018-11-27 14:34:25 +0000
committerDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2018-11-27 16:13:07 +0100
commit71df2d3589e3e682cd6770f41f0b184841b78702 (patch)
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downloadbusybox-71df2d3589e3e682cd6770f41f0b184841b78702.tar.gz
hush: allow hush to run embedded scripts
Embedded scripts require a shell to be present in the BusyBox binary. Allow either ash or hush to be used for this purpose. If both are enabled ash takes precedence. The size of the binary is unchanged in the default configuration: both ash and hush are present but support for embedded scripts isn't compiled into hush. Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston <rmy@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/docs/embedded-scripts.txt b/docs/embedded-scripts.txt
index 1b0c5b591..7a273d698 100644
--- a/docs/embedded-scripts.txt
+++ b/docs/embedded-scripts.txt
@@ -3,13 +3,9 @@ Embedded Shell Scripts in BusyBox
BusyBox allows applets to be implemented as shell scripts. Since
this obviously requires a shell to interpret the scripts the feature
-depends on having a shell (specifically, ash) built into the binary.
-Support for embedded scripts also has to be enabled.
-
-To embed scripts in BusyBox you must enable these configuration options:
-
- ASH
- ASH_EMBEDDED_SCRIPTS
+depends on having a shell built into the binary. Either ash or hush
+will do. If both are present ash will be used. Support for embedded
+scripts also has to be enabled.
It's unlikely that your applet will be implemented as a pure shell
script: it will probably need some external commands. If these are
@@ -75,10 +71,9 @@ code for the native applet:
The only difference is that the applet is specified as being of type
APPLET_SCRIPTED. It would also be useful to include details of any
-dependencies the script has. We can assume that ash is available.
-No external commands are used by our mu script, but it does depend on
-optional shell features. We can ensure these are selected by adding
-this to the configuration:
+dependencies the script has. No external commands are used by our mu
+script, but it does depend on optional shell features. We can ensure
+these are selected by adding this to the configuration:
//config:config MU_DEPENDENCIES
//config: bool "Enable dependencies for mu"
@@ -87,8 +82,8 @@ this to the configuration:
//config: select ASH_RANDOM_SUPPORT
//config: select FEATURE_SH_MATH
//config: help
-//config: mu is implemented as a shell script. It requires ash
-//config: support for $RANDOM and arithmetic.
+//config: mu is implemented as a shell script. It requires support
+//config: for $RANDOM and arithmetic.
The configuration data should be placed in a C file in an appropriate
subdirectory. There isn't any C code, though! In this case the file