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It actually makes the binaries smaller, the code easier to read (gems like "val == true", "val == false" are gone) and actually predictable in the sense of that we actually know what we're working with (one bitwise operator was quite adventurous and should now be fixed). This is also more consistent with the other suckless projects around which don't use boolean types.
sbase - suckless unix tools =========================== sbase is a collection of unix tools that are inherently portable across UNIX and UNIX-like systems. The following programs are currently implemented: +---------+-----------+--------+ |UTILITY |POSIX |FEATURES| | |CONFORMANCE|MISSING | +---------+-----------+--------+ |basename | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |cal | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |cat | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |chgrp | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |chmod | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |chown | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |chroot | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |cksum | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |cmp | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |col | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |cols | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |comm | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |cp | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |csplit | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |cut | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |date | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |dirname | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |du | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |echo | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |env | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |expand | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |expr | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |false | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |fold | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |grep | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |head | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |hostname | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |kill | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |link | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |ln | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |logname | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |ls | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |md5sum | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |mkdir | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |mkfifo | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |mktemp | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |mv | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |nice | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |nl | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |nohup | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |paste | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |printenv | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |printf | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |pwd | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |readlink | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |renice | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |rm | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |rmdir | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |sleep | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |setsid | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |sort | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |split | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |sponge | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |strings | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |sync | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |tail | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |tar | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |tee | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |test | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |touch | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |tr | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |true | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |tty | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |uudecode | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |uuencode | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |uname | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |unexpand | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |uniq | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |unlink | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |seq | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |sha1sum | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |sha256sum| | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |sha512sum| | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |wc | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |xargs | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ |yes | | | +---------+-----------+--------+ The complement of sbase is ubase[1] which is Linux-specific and 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 individual tools to sbase-box. 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. sbase also compiles and runs on minix3 with slight modifications. They do not provide mmap()/munmap() so you need to use minix_mmap() and minix_munmap() respectively. 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/