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This is a temporary home for the BusyBox FreeBSD

Goal

BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. Goal is to have it up and running on the FreeBSD. This could be very helpful on embedded space or for other purposes.

Current state

BusyBox is available in the FreeBSD ports tree. So far following applets are enabled and tested:

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All FreeBSD specific patches are shared with upstream.

Known issues

• FS /compat/linux/proc must be mounted to make ps and some other tools working
• CONFIG_UDPSVD is not working, as udpio.c depends on IP_PKTINFO which is n/a on FreeBSD. Code needs to be adopted to use IP_RECVDSTADDR on BSD.
• CONFIG_ARPING - BSD code to deal with raw socket is very different, not sure that porting this tool worth it. OSS arping using libnet as abstraction layer to solve it.
• CONFIG_DF - Error on build, libbb/find_mount_point.c:10:10: fatal error: 'mntent.h' file not found
• CONFIG_NPROC - ld: error: undefined symbol: sched_getaffinity
• CONFIG_FEATURE_STAT_FILESYSTEM - error: incomplete definition of type 'struct statfs'
• CONFIG_FEATURE_SYNC_FANCY - ld: error: undefined symbol: syncfs
• CONFIG_UPTIME, CONFIG_FREE - depends on sysinfo(), see https://code.google.com/archive/p/sysinfo-bsd/source/default/source for the sample wrapper
• CONFIG_BEEP - depends on KIOCSOUND ioctl, SPKRTONE is a BSD option
• CONFIG_DMESG - depends on sys/klog.h
• Netcat UDP listen mode is broken, nc -l -p 4434 -u gives nc: can't connect to remote host: Address family not supported by protocol family. Most likely reason is same as with CONFIG_UDPSVD