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hi,

i am curious if you'd be interested in moving bsdutils maintenance under https://github.com/chimera-linux, since it relies on bsdutils for its core userland and realistically probably gets the most testing in there/is the biggest user? Chances are it could get more development/attention/focus that way, plus potentially better infrastructure as well.

If not, that's fine of course (i'll probably just continue making pull requests here as needed)

There are some things I am investigating currently:

1. a multicall binary option (I believe I have a way to do this that is minimally invasive when it comes to patching, and this would enable me to replace klibc and busybox in places like compact initramfs environments)
2. a fine-grained way to enable/disable individual tools (especially useful together with 1)
3. I am thinking whether we could merge my other ports of FreeBSD tools in here, even stuff that is beyond coreutils (stuff like grep, sed/ed, m4, gzip, patch, diff) in order to have a shared build system; this would make 1) and 2) further useful

too many warnings and
./compat.h:20:29: error: expected identifier
char *group_from_gid(gid_t, int);
Thanks.

I was thinking we could possibly do that instead of just dropping them altogether - could reduce the patch sizes and make them a little more functional

thoughts?

Hi,

i plan since long to port the bsd iserland to Haiku to reduce the count of the gpl’ed dependencies (which isnt free in my eyes). So far i was unable to extract the necessary files from bsd, so no real progress. Seeingyou have epos with the sources i planning to try to build all of them on Haiku and write recipes for the package builders. Possibly some patching will be nevessary here and there. Would you accept Haiku specific patches?

Hi!

May I suggest adding a list of utils currently implemented in the README (and possibly also status). It would be much easier to see how complete bsdutils is, and possibly how mature it is.

Hello,
There's been quite a lot changes happened in FreeBSD coreutils and it would be nice to sync those changes here as well.

The hard part is, sorting the patch files, but it's probably a good idea to just see the diffs between the upstream code base and this repository.

Hi.

Subj will be really useful in statically linked musl environments.