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2014-02-12 14:34:09 +00:00
sbase - suckless unix tools
===========================
sbase is a collection of unix tools that are inherently portable
across UNIX and UNIX-like systems.
Prepare POSIX 2013 audit I can't believe we've come this far! The idea is to look at the 2013 POSIX corrigendum for each tool and deep-test features before making the first 0.1 release. To keep the noise low, I'll do this in batches, not on a per-tool- basis (as many of these are trivial to test). In the meantime, I'll also think of a fitting STANDARDS section for the non-POSIX tools. Now that the audits are pretty much done, I can also have a more relaxed view on standards compliance instead of having to dig through some uncleaned mess. To mark this "new beginning", the README has gotten a liftover. The POSIX 2008-column was more or less useless and as I expect the checks to go along pretty quickly, I "reset" the compliance state of all but the non-POSIX tools and will then go along and check every single one of them in the next few days. Apart from the few missing flags and audits, sbase should then be ready to hit the world with the first release after 4 years of work.
2015-03-23 15:22:00 +00:00
The following tools are implemented:
Add an easier to edit "table" of tools in README We need to go through the tools and update this table to reflect current state.
2014-11-20 23:01:56 +00:00
Prepare POSIX 2013 audit I can't believe we've come this far! The idea is to look at the 2013 POSIX corrigendum for each tool and deep-test features before making the first 0.1 release. To keep the noise low, I'll do this in batches, not on a per-tool- basis (as many of these are trivial to test). In the meantime, I'll also think of a fitting STANDARDS section for the non-POSIX tools. Now that the audits are pretty much done, I can also have a more relaxed view on standards compliance instead of having to dig through some uncleaned mess. To mark this "new beginning", the README has gotten a liftover. The POSIX 2008-column was more or less useless and as I expect the checks to go along pretty quickly, I "reset" the compliance state of all but the non-POSIX tools and will then go along and check every single one of them in the next few days. Apart from the few missing flags and audits, sbase should then be ready to hit the world with the first release after 4 years of work.
2015-03-23 15:22:00 +00:00
'#' -> UTF-8 support, '=' -> Implicit UTF-8 support, '*' -> Finished,
'|' -> Audited, 'o' -> POSIX 2013 compliant, 'x' -> Non-POSIX,
Add symbol to mark NUL handling in each tool (and where it is missing) The assumption of NUL-terminated strings is actually quite a good one in most cases. You don't have to worry about paths, because they may not contain NUL. Same applies to arguments passed to you. Unless you have to unescape, there is no way for you to receive a NUL. There are two important exceptions though, and it's important that we address them, or else we get unexpected behaviour: 1) All tools using unescape() have to be strict about delimlen. Else they end up for instance unescaping '\\0abc' to '\0abc', which in C's string-vision is an empty string. 2) All tools doing line wrenching and putting them out again as lines again. puts() will cut each line containing NULs off at the first occurence.
2016-02-25 23:36:53 +00:00
'0' -> NUL handling, '()' -> Petty flag
Prepare POSIX 2013 audit I can't believe we've come this far! The idea is to look at the 2013 POSIX corrigendum for each tool and deep-test features before making the first 0.1 release. To keep the noise low, I'll do this in batches, not on a per-tool- basis (as many of these are trivial to test). In the meantime, I'll also think of a fitting STANDARDS section for the non-POSIX tools. Now that the audits are pretty much done, I can also have a more relaxed view on standards compliance instead of having to dig through some uncleaned mess. To mark this "new beginning", the README has gotten a liftover. The POSIX 2008-column was more or less useless and as I expect the checks to go along pretty quickly, I "reset" the compliance state of all but the non-POSIX tools and will then go along and check every single one of them in the next few days. Apart from the few missing flags and audits, sbase should then be ready to hit the world with the first release after 4 years of work.
2015-03-23 15:22:00 +00:00
Indent README headings properly
2016-03-07 09:50:29 +00:00
UTILITY MISSING
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Add symbol to mark NUL handling in each tool (and where it is missing) The assumption of NUL-terminated strings is actually quite a good one in most cases. You don't have to worry about paths, because they may not contain NUL. Same applies to arguments passed to you. Unless you have to unescape, there is no way for you to receive a NUL. There are two important exceptions though, and it's important that we address them, or else we get unexpected behaviour: 1) All tools using unescape() have to be strict about delimlen. Else they end up for instance unescaping '\\0abc' to '\0abc', which in C's string-vision is an empty string. 2) All tools doing line wrenching and putting them out again as lines again. puts() will cut each line containing NULs off at the first occurence.
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0=*|o basename .
0=*|o cal .
0=*|o cat .
0=*|o chgrp .
0=*|o chmod .
0=*|o chown .
0=*|x chroot .
0=*|o cksum .
0=*|o cmp .
Don't mark cols(1) as NUL-compliant as of yet Thing is, we don't yet have an updated utflen() ready for use. Although prints the lines completely, it does not add a proper spacing between each entry. This will be fixed later.
2016-03-06 23:52:47 +00:00
#*|x cols .
Support NUL containing lines in comm(1)
2016-03-07 00:42:01 +00:00
0=*|o comm .
Add symbol to mark NUL handling in each tool (and where it is missing) The assumption of NUL-terminated strings is actually quite a good one in most cases. You don't have to worry about paths, because they may not contain NUL. Same applies to arguments passed to you. Unless you have to unescape, there is no way for you to receive a NUL. There are two important exceptions though, and it's important that we address them, or else we get unexpected behaviour: 1) All tools using unescape() have to be strict about delimlen. Else they end up for instance unescaping '\\0abc' to '\0abc', which in C's string-vision is an empty string. 2) All tools doing line wrenching and putting them out again as lines again. puts() will cut each line containing NULs off at the first occurence.
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0=*|o cp (-i)
0=*|x cron .
#*|o cut .
0=*|o date .
0=*|o dirname .
0=*|o du .
0=*|o echo .
o ed .
0=*|o env .
0#*|o expand .
0#*|o expr .
0=*|o false .
0= find .
0=* x flock .
#*|o fold .
0=*|o getconf (-v)
=*|o grep .
Support NUL containing lines in head(1) Very trivial this time.
2016-03-07 09:48:17 +00:00
0=*|o head .
Add symbol to mark NUL handling in each tool (and where it is missing) The assumption of NUL-terminated strings is actually quite a good one in most cases. You don't have to worry about paths, because they may not contain NUL. Same applies to arguments passed to you. Unless you have to unescape, there is no way for you to receive a NUL. There are two important exceptions though, and it's important that we address them, or else we get unexpected behaviour: 1) All tools using unescape() have to be strict about delimlen. Else they end up for instance unescaping '\\0abc' to '\0abc', which in C's string-vision is an empty string. 2) All tools doing line wrenching and putting them out again as lines again. puts() will cut each line containing NULs off at the first occurence.
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0=*|x hostname .
0=*|x install .
=* o join .
0=*|o kill .
0=*|o link .
0=*|o ln .
=*|o logger .
0=*|o logname .
0#* o ls (-C, -k, -m, -p, -s, -x)
0=*|x md5sum .
0=*|o mkdir .
0=*|o mkfifo .
0=*|x mktemp .
0=*|o mv (-i)
0=*|o nice .
#*|o nl .
0=*|o nohup .
0=*|o od .
0#* o pathchk .
#*|o paste .
0=*|x printenv .
0#*|o printf .
0=*|o pwd .
0=*|x readlink .
0=*|o renice .
0=*|o rm (-i)
0=*|o rmdir .
# sed .
0=*|x seq .
0=*|x setsid .
0=*|x sha1sum .
0=* x sha224sum .
0=*|x sha256sum .
0=* x sha238sum .
0=*|x sha512sum .
0=* x sha512-224sum .
0=* x sha512-256sum .
0=*|o sleep .
Support NUL-containing lines in sort(1) For sort(1) we need memmem(), which I imported from OpenBSD. Inside sort(1), the changes involved working with the explicit lengths given by getlines() earlier and rewriting some of the functions. Now we can handle NUL-characters in the input just fine.
2016-02-28 23:47:10 +00:00
0#*|o sort .
Add symbol to mark NUL handling in each tool (and where it is missing) The assumption of NUL-terminated strings is actually quite a good one in most cases. You don't have to worry about paths, because they may not contain NUL. Same applies to arguments passed to you. Unless you have to unescape, there is no way for you to receive a NUL. There are two important exceptions though, and it's important that we address them, or else we get unexpected behaviour: 1) All tools using unescape() have to be strict about delimlen. Else they end up for instance unescaping '\\0abc' to '\0abc', which in C's string-vision is an empty string. 2) All tools doing line wrenching and putting them out again as lines again. puts() will cut each line containing NULs off at the first occurence.
2016-02-25 23:36:53 +00:00
0=*|o split .
0=*|x sponge .
0#*|o strings .
0=*|x sync .
Support NUL containing lines in tail(1) This was rather simple this time.
2016-03-07 09:20:40 +00:00
0=*|o tail .
Add symbol to mark NUL handling in each tool (and where it is missing) The assumption of NUL-terminated strings is actually quite a good one in most cases. You don't have to worry about paths, because they may not contain NUL. Same applies to arguments passed to you. Unless you have to unescape, there is no way for you to receive a NUL. There are two important exceptions though, and it's important that we address them, or else we get unexpected behaviour: 1) All tools using unescape() have to be strict about delimlen. Else they end up for instance unescaping '\\0abc' to '\0abc', which in C's string-vision is an empty string. 2) All tools doing line wrenching and putting them out again as lines again. puts() will cut each line containing NULs off at the first occurence.
2016-02-25 23:36:53 +00:00
0=*|x tar .
0=*|o tee .
0=*|o test .
0=*|x tftp .
0=*|o time .
0=*|o touch .
0#*|o tr .
0=*|o true .
0=* o tsort .
0=*|o tty .
0=*|o uname .
0#*|o unexpand .
=*|o uniq .
0=*|o unlink .
0=*|o uudecode .
0=*|o uuencode .
0#*|o wc .
0=*|x which .
0=*|x whoami .
=*|o xargs (-p)
0=*|x yes .
Add an easier to edit "table" of tools in README We need to go through the tools and update this table to reflect current state.
2014-11-20 23:01:56 +00:00
Minor fix for README
2014-02-12 18:39:13 +00:00
The complement of sbase is ubase[1] which is Linux-specific and
Add initial README
2014-02-12 14:34:09 +00:00
provides all the non-portable tools. Together they are intended to
form a base system similar to busybox but much smaller and suckless.
Building
--------
To build sbase, simply type make. You may have to fiddle with
config.mk depending on your system.
You can also build sbase-box, which generates a single binary
containing all the required tools. You can then symlink the
README: document sbase-box-install rule
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individual tools to sbase-box or run: make sbase-box-install
Add initial README
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Ideally you will want to statically link sbase. If you are on Linux
we recommend using musl-libc[2].
Portability
-----------
sbase has been compiled on a variety of different operating systems,
including Linux, *BSD, OSX, Haiku, Solaris, SCO OpenServer and others.
Various combinations of operating systems and architectures have also
been built.
You can build sbase with gcc, clang, tcc, nwcc and pcc.
[1] http://git.suckless.org/ubase/
[2] http://www.musl-libc.org/
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