[TUHS] the first busybox
Chet Ramey via TUHS
tuhs at tuhs.org
Fri Oct 23 07:17:45 AEST 2026
On 10/22/26 5:08 PM, Mary Ann Horton via TUHS wrote:
> I believe it was common practice back then to check argv[0] to allow a
> program to behave differently depending on the name it was called by. I
> certainly wasn't the first.
sh/rsh, for instance.
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``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet at case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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