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"or example just

   /bin/ls

after /bin/ls is linked to /bin/busybox." I think there should be an additional 'ls' in the end - like '/bin/busybox ls'

I thought the way BusyBox worked was that 'ls' and friends were symlinked to /bin/busybox and then when the binary was run, it figured out under what name it was called and then manifested appropriate behavior? --Gwern (contribs) 19:13 7 June 2007 (GMT)

It works both ways. "ln -s /bin/busybox /bin/ls; /bin/ls > test1; /bin/busybox ls > test2; cmp test1 test2 || echo wtf;"

IBM?

Reference 38 is nonsense- goes to some IBM marketing page. What was the intention here? Hskrivervik (talk) 20:06, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Linux, FreeBSD

WRT "It runs in many POSIX environments including Linux, Android, and FreeBSD, although many of the tools it provides are designed to work with interfaces provided by the Linux kernel"

Paraphrase: It runs environments including Linux although many tools it provides are designed to work with Linux. Huh? The 'although' implies a contradiction. But, I see none WRT Linux. And since Android _is_ Linux, no contradiction there either. Is this supposed to only be something that apples to FreeBSD? Maybe it's supposed to be like: "It runs in many POSIX environments. Although designed to work with Linux kernel interfaces, it supports some non-Linux systems including FreeBSD." Stevebroshar (talk) 22:11, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Source Intro item on controversy

Could we get a source and footnote specifically for the controversy mentioned in the intro? It currently says a lot without a reference.

"after controversially deciding not to move to version 3."

-- Semitones (talk) 01:13, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Semitones from what i can gather from busybox's license page, it wasn't much of a "controversial decision" as it was a "we include GPLv2-only code and are thus necessarily GPLv2" thing, so we should probably remove that text. ~2025-35814-24 (talk) 10:40, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]