[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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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet at case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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