OT bunzip2 fails to decompress pbzip2-compressed files

Tito farmatito at tiscali.it
Tue Nov 2 21:15:01 UTC 2010


On Tuesday 02 November 2010 21:26:26 Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 November 2010 21:13, Tito wrote:
> > So returning to our goals: simple and small,
> > just wanted to remind you about two pending patches 
> > that maybe slipped through.
> > One from the obfuscation department about deluser/delgroup:
> > 
> > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-October/073652.html
> 
> Still sits in the inbox... I will reply to that mail.
> 
> 
> > and one from the simplification department about add/remove shell:
> > 
> > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-October/073628.html
> > (maybe this one needs more love as it was just a weird idea i had to reduce the code size)
> 
> Already in git:
> 
> # ./busybox add-shell --help
> BusyBox v1.18.0.git (2010-11-02 19:56:09 CET) multi-call binary.
> 
> Usage: add-shell SHELL...
> 
> Add SHELLs to /etc/shells
> 
> # ./busybox remove-shell --help
> BusyBox v1.18.0.git (2010-11-02 19:56:09 CET) multi-call binary.
> 
> Usage: remove-shell SHELL...
> 
> Remove SHELLs from /etc/shells
> 
> 


To be honest my patch is a rewrite of the current version in git that 
reduces size and uses existing libbb infrastructure (update_passwd)
to get this job done. When you have time please take a look at it.

Ciao,
Tito



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