[Toybox] [PATCH] new toys groups and whoami

[David Seikel]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:24:56 -0600 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 02/24/2012 02:04 AM, Daniel Walter wrote:
> > new toys groups and whoami
> > 
> >  * fixed wrong path for id (should be /usr/bin/id)
> >
> > --
> > comments are welcome.
> 
> Hmmm...
> 
> One of the things I'm doing is script wrappers for really _obvious_
> stuff; see the "wrappers" directory.
> 
> Possibly these are better as wrappers, ala:
> 
> whoami:
>   #!/bin/sh
> 
>   id -un
> 
> I note that I haven't got an _installer_ for the wrappers yet.  And
> they don't hook into the "help" command, or show up in toybox's big
> list of available commands.  Possibly they're not a good idea at all,
> and it should all just be C code.  (That has the adantage that you
> can drop a statically linked toybox binary on a system and get
> everything.)
> 
> I thought I'd throw the issue out there; I'm open to suggestions on
> this one...

All C code gets my vote.

-- 
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coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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