• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Root Busy Box..??

BusyBox

BusyBox: The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux

BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system.

BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind. It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude commands (or features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize your embedded systems. To create a working system, just add some device nodes in /dev, a few configuration files in /etc, and a Linux kernel.

yeah i copied and pasted lol i couldn't explain myself lol.
 
blaxican25 said:
BusyBox

BusyBox: The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux

BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system.

BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind. It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude commands (or features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize your embedded systems. To create a working system, just add some device nodes in /dev, a few configuration files in /etc, and a Linux kernel.

yeah i copied and pasted lol i couldn't explain myself lol.
Click to expand...

LMFAO yea okay Tony stark lol im guessing its no help for the LG esteem? i saw it on someones ROM and i wanted to know if it will improve or help with anything.
 
Busybox is a collection of simple, but powerful, Linux
utilities, that android doesn't come with by default. It
is used by apps like MetaMorph and Titanium backup
in order to do special operations.
:3
 
Mexjoker said:
Busybox is a collection of simple, but powerful, Linux
utilities, that android doesn't come with by default. It
is used by apps like MetaMorph and Titanium backup
in order to do special operations.
:3
Click to expand...

SO its a good idea to download it right? :D
 
OptiC-ShotS said:
SO its a good idea to download it right? :D
Click to expand...
busybox & toolbox are basic utilities used for 'symlink-ing' during the installation proccess of MOST roms to provide the 'common sense' of your system (basically telling it where to go when something is or needs to be done)

some people say toolbox is better, some say busybox is better, but in most cases you need both anyway so who the heck cares lol, if you check the updater-script in 'META-INF folder you'll see a bunch of text lines refferring to toolbox and in a lot of other roms (for other devices) you'll see both toolbox & busybox symlinks, in our case busybox was used for gaining full root permissions on our custom rom just with the simple busybox file in bin folder and custom root boot.img,

which is why you couldn't do certain things with only a stock rooted device, you needed a boot.img with root permissions and busybox permissions.


so to answer your question, we already have it lol
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom