[Toybox] awk (Re: ps down, top to go)

Roy Tam roytam at gmail.com
Tue May 31 00:13:38 PDT 2016


2016-05-31 15:06 GMT+08:00 Andy Chu <andychup at gmail.com>:
>> Many of minix /bin stuffs are removed since they decided to use NetBSD
>> userland in 3.2.
>> Thorsten Glaser stated "Ninix 3 (Minix 3 with NetBSD® code) has first
>> been working starting with mksh R40e (clang). More porting and tests
>> are needed. This is different from “regular” Minix 3." in MirOS Korn
>> Shell page.
>
> Yeah, the existence of that code is interesting and news to me, but
> for the purposes of this discussion, I'm going to guess it's not a
> POSIX compliant shell.  I bet their experience was that nothing in
> NetBSD would build under their shell, so they had to switch to the
> NetBSD posix-compliant shell first.
>
> It looks like a pretty serious attempt, but seems a bit thin (in my
> highly unscientific judgement).  I don't really have a way of testing
> it short of digging up old MINIX binaries, which I'm not really in the
> mood for :)

Old busybox should have minix shell (msh) ported.

>
> Andy


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