rust-busybox

[bdrung]

You rewrote GNU coreutils in Rust, but also started to rewrite other utils like findutils and diffutils. So how about rewriting busybox in Rust? Most work would be spend in making your coreutils, findutils, diffutils being configurable to only use a subset of functions. The tricky part is how to reduce the final size of the multi-call binary.

Related discussions:

• request: sh #7481
• Minimal Linux Implementation Using Rust Coreutils #6457

Alternatives:

• rustybox: https://github.com/8b-is/rustybox
• armybox: https://github.com/quinnjr/armybox

Not active alternatives:

• rustybox: https://github.com/samuela/rustybox (last commit in 2020)

[oech3]

I'm not reading code well, but I think we can patch coreutils's build.rs to accept --features "find, locate, grep, sed,..." with optional dependencies uu_find, etc...