published the release of the set of system utilities Toybox 0.8.9 , like the Busybox designed in the form of a single executable file and optimized for minimal consumption of system resources. The project is developing a former minantineer of Busybox and spreads under the license 0BSD . The main purpose of Toybox is to provide manufacturers with the possibility of using a minimalistic set of standard utilities without opening the initial texts of modified components. According to the capabilities of Toybox so far lagging behind the BusyBox, but 306 basic commands (231 are completely and 75 partially) of 384 planned. From the innovations of Toybox 0.8.9 we can note:
- In addition to the NBD-Client command, the new NBD-SERVER command was added to the implementation of the server part of the network block device (NBD, Network Block Device).
- The GREP utility has been optimized when processing simple templates that do not require attracting a full regular expressions engine (for example, “^”, “.” And “$”, but not “*” and “[]”). The increase in performance is especially noticeable when searching for several templates.
- Improved support for “TAR –xform”.
- Added options Sort -c, LSUSB -I, Netcat -n, Swapoff -a -v, Httpd -v, Nbd -Client -b, LS -n and UNAME -P.
- Sleep utility implements the possibility of transmitting several argmttes.
- The SED ensures the analysis of the alternating parameters -e and -f.
- The number of supported options in Geadlink and Realpath.
- Netcat improved implementation of the operating mode using the UDP.
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