[Toybox] Release 0.8.8 is out.

[enh]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 1:37 PM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
>
> It's up, less than a full week late.
>
> No new commands this time. (Most of the delay was the vain hope I could get diff
> and dd ready in time, but... not even close.)
>
> Rob
>
> P.S. I cheated slightly and generated the help.html and status.html pages from
> the x86-64 binary I uploaded this time, which comes from mkroot, which isn't
> QUITE defconfig because that adds two commands (sh and route) to the defconfig
> it builds. (Longstanding todo to fix it, working on it already for the shell...)
>
> And what that showed me is looking at https://landley.net/toybox/html.html it's
> a little awkward to have command aliases be in the help -ah list. The first
> thing in the list with the shell enabled are the "-bash", "-sh", and "-toysh"
> aliases which I really would rather not have to explain to people. (Some legacy
> thing from the 1970s with sysvinit calling login shells interacting badly with
> command multiplexers wanting to know what a command is called. The bash man
> page's invocation section says "A login shell is one whose first character of
> argument zero is a -, or one started with the --login option.")
>
> Anyway, possibly I should filter out some aliases from the help -a output?
> (Maybe just the entries starting with punctuation...)

i've had to explain to OEMs a few times that, no, /system/bin/[ isn't
a bug or a sign you've been hacked :-)

i don't have a strong opinion on [ (though i suspect we _should_ keep
that there), but hiding the -.* stuff sgtm, since that's really just
an implementation detail of the multiplexer.

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