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authorLeah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>2025-10-04 09:14:33 +0100
committerLeah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>2025-10-04 09:20:12 +0100
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config/git: import suckless sbase
i currently use the output of sha512sum in several places of xbmk, which is a bit unreliable in case output changes. other cases where i use util outputs in variables are probably reliable, because i'm using mostly posix utilities in those. to mitigate this, i now import suckless sbase, which has a reasonable sha512sum implementation. *every* binary it builds is being placed in build.list, because i'll probably start using more of them. for example, i may start modifying the "date" implementation, adding the GNU-specific options that i need as mentioned on init.sh i'm importing it in util/ because the sha512sum util is needed for verifying project sources, so if sbase itself is a "project source", that means we can into a chicken and egg bootstrapping problem. this is sbase at revision: 055cc1ae1b3a13c3d8f25af0a4a3316590efcd48 Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
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+The following list of commands is taken from the toybox roadmap[0] and
+has been stripped down accordingly. Commands that belong to ubase[1]
+are not listed here as well as commands that fall outside the scope of
+sbase such as vi and sh are also not listed here.
+
+at
+awk
+bc
+diff
+patch
+stty
+
+If you are looking for some work to do on sbase, another option is to
+pick a utility from the list in the README which has missing flags or
+features noted.
+
+What also needs to be implemented is the capability of the tools to
+handle data with NUL-bytes in it.
+
+The return values of mdcheckline() in crypt.c need to be fixed (0 -> success,
+1 -> error).
+
+[0] http://landley.net/toybox/roadmap.html
+[1] http://git.suckless.org/ubase/
+
+Bugs
+====
+
+ed
+--
+* cat <<EOF | ed
+ i
+ LLL
+ .
+ s/$/\\
+
+* cat <<EOF | ed
+ 0a
+ int radix = 16;
+ int Pflag;
+ int Aflag;
+ int vflag;
+ int gflag;
+ int uflag;
+ int arflag;
+
+ .
+ ?radix?;/^$/-s/^/static /
+* cat <<EOF | ed
+ 0a
+ Line
+ .
+ s# *##
+* cat <<EOF | ed
+ 0a
+ line
+ .
+ 1g/^$/p
+
+* cat <<EOF | ed
+ 0a
+ line1
+ line2
+ line3
+ .
+ g/^$/d
+ ,p
+
+* Editing huge files doesn't work well.
+
+
+printf
+------
+* Flags for string conversion-specifier (%s) are not supported.
+* Escape sequences that expand to '%' are treated as beginning of
+ conversion specification.
+* An trailing '%' at the end of a format string causes a read past
+ the end of the string.
+
+tr
+--
+* When a character class is present, all other characters in the
+ string are ignored.
+
+sbase-box
+---------
+* List of commands does not contain `install` (only `xinstall`).
+
+
+xargs
+-----
+* Add -L.