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Re:Why bother with argv[0]? by gary_0 on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @11:49AM (#41436117)
Yeah. The whole point of busybox is to provide the POSIX commands in one compact executable. Making things work any other way defeats the entire purpose of busybox.
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Re:Why bother with argv[0]? by adw on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @06:26PM (#41439959)
In other words: `busybox` is primarily an implementation of a _standard library_ and only secondarily a command line tool, so it _must_ use the standard names.
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