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Eh, somebody reinvents this every few years. For the kernel guys it was bpf. Pascal p-code was 1973. When I independently reinvented the concept in college (shortly before encountering Java)...

OSI has decided to agree with SPDX and call 0BSD "Zero-Clause BSD", clearing up the naming confusion. http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2018-November/003830.html

Acknowledged, I'll try to get to it this week. (My local copy of cp.c is dirty because https://landley.net/notes-2022.html#30-11-2022 got bumped from last release, I should finish that up then add...

Sorry for the delay, haven't forgotten about this, I just need to work through this file being dirty in my tree: git diff toys/*/cp.c | diffstat cp.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------...

The most recent commit to that file was 4 and 1/2 years ago, and we've had 10 releases since then. The failure is that your libc's strndup() returned NULL. I...

Ah, after going and reading the gentoo bug and then coming back and rereading this one, it's not strndup() _returning_ NULL, it's strndup() being CALLED on a null. My bad,...

Could be new libc, new compiler, a change in the runtime environment... I still want to fix it. It's just awkward without having locally reproduced it. Rather than try to...

Alas there are probably multiple memory leaks hiding in there, I'm still filling out features and squashing obvious bugs in toysh so haven't done a pass to make sure all...

Not make defconfig, make android_defconfig. Some commands don't build under the NDK. The biggest chunk of them is the shadow password stuff, which I have a patch locally to rewrite...

Toybox has a small system builder called "mkroot", that's what I'm giving the talk about this weekend: https://github.com/landley/toybox/tree/master/mkroot It's a ~400 line bash script that compiles a bootable Linux system:...