Hi All, Thanks for your answer. I want to know is there any similar package like busybox we can use in embedded product. I found few of them but could not found as good as busybox. so this is reason i ask. 1. http://www.fefe.de/embutils/ 2. https://github.com/asdf-systems/gobox 3. http://www.landley.net/code/toybox/about.html For security issue in busybox. I could not find detail but below slide mention it . https://speakerd.s3.amazonaws.com/presentations/4e9334432deb290054011ba7/sli... Thanks On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at> wrote:
On Mit, 2011-11-23 at 10:42 +0530, Mandeep Sandhu wrote:
I post on Kernel newbies since i could not found any good place to post.
Why this not good place and not one of the other not good places? It's about newbies to the (Linux) kernel as such after all (and not about "Linux newbies"). There probably more people on the busybox list or embutils ML (is there one?) who know about "competing products" (what's the socially accepted term nowadays for that?).
We do not want to use busybox due to its licence and security issue.
For the license part: Well, tough luck. What's the problem with GPLv2?
Perhaps Google finds a similar package with another - proprietary? - license. There are lots of companies out there, there should be several to choose a vendor.
What security issue are you concerned about? Can you explain your concern a little more.
Also, if you have some busybox specific question, ppl on the busybox mailing list will be able to help you better.
For the security part: the busybox list would be eager to hear of any problems so that one can fix them.
Bernd -- Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at LUGA : http://www.luga.at
--- El mié 23-nov-11, naveen yadav <yad.naveen@gmail.com> escribió:
For security issue in busybox. I could not find detail but below slide mention it . https://speakerd.s3.amazonaws.com/presentations/4e9334432deb290054011ba7/sli...
For what it's worth in our company we use busybox in our embedded product. At least to me, it seems fairly easy to config and to install. I would give it a try, make a few tests rather than take for granted those gobox slides. About license issues, I assume naveen has some propietary application and want to run it on some box. But as long as you don't *link* to busybox (somehow) or use *code* from it, and just launch it as 'busybox ls', I think there is no problem. Maybe I am wrong about this. As people already told you, probably in another busybox-related mail list you are going to find more help. Regards, Ezequiel.
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