RustyNova@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 7 days agoUnix purists bullies another projectlemmy.worldimagemessage-square24linkfedilinkarrow-up1208arrow-down110file-text
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minus-squarethevoidzero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 days agoWhat if I write a program that checks argv[0] to decide which part of the code to run, and makes a bunch of symlinks
minus-squareCrumblyLiquid@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9·6 days agoThat’s actually what BusyBox does I think. You have one executable for everything and it changes the behavior according to argv[0].
minus-squareThreeKnew@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoThen that would kind of defeat the purpose But it’s not like you /have/ to adhere to the Unix philosophy or anything
What if I write a program that checks argv[0] to decide which part of the code to run, and makes a bunch of symlinks
That’s actually what BusyBox does I think. You have one executable for everything and it changes the behavior according to argv[0].
Then that would kind of defeat the purpose
But it’s not like you /have/ to adhere to the Unix philosophy or anything