ndk-busybox/shell
Ron Yorston 3778898f97 Treat custom and applet scripts as applets
BusyBox has support for embedded shell scripts.  Two types can be
distinguished:  custom scripts and scripts implementing applets.

Custom scripts should be placed in the 'embed' directory at build
time.  They are given a default applet configuration and appear
as applets to the user but no further configuration is possible.

Applet scripts are integrated with the BusyBox build system and
are intended to be used to ship standard applets that just happen
to be implemented as scripts.  They can be configured at build time
and appear just like native applets.

Such scripts should be placed in the 'applets_sh' directory.  A stub
C program should be written to provide the usual applet configuration
details and placed in a suitable subsystem directory.  It may be
helpful to have a configuration option to enable any dependencies the
script requires:  see the 'nologin' applet for an example.

function                                             old     new   delta
scripted_main                                          -      41     +41
applet_names                                        2773    2781      +8
applet_main                                         1600    1604      +4
i2cdetect_main                                       672     674      +2
applet_suid                                          100     101      +1
applet_install_loc                                   200     201      +1
applet_flags                                         100     101      +1
packed_usage                                       33180   33179      -1
tryexec                                              159     152      -7
evalcommand                                         1661    1653      -8
script_names                                           9       -      -9
packed_scripts                                       123     114      -9
complete_cmd_dir_file                                826     811     -15
shellexec                                            271     254     -17
find_command                                        1007     990     -17
busybox_main                                         642     624     -18
run_applet_and_exit                                  100      78     -22
find_script_by_name                                   51       -     -51
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Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston <rmy@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
2018-11-17 21:16:33 +01:00
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ash_test ash: expand: Do not quote backslashes in unquoted parameter expansion 2018-08-07 18:58:02 +02:00
hush_test ash: expand: Do not quote backslashes in unquoted parameter expansion 2018-08-07 18:58:02 +02:00
ash_doc.txt ash: fix TRACE commands 2009-03-19 23:09:58 +00:00
ash_ptr_hack.c *: make GNU licensing statement forms more regular 2010-08-16 20:14:46 +02:00
ash.c Treat custom and applet scripts as applets 2018-11-17 21:16:33 +01:00
brace.txt hush: wait for cmd to complete, and immediately store its exitcode in $? 2009-11-15 19:58:19 +01:00
Config.src restore documentation on the build config language 2018-06-06 15:16:48 +02:00
cttyhack.c regularize format of source file headers, no code changes 2017-09-18 16:28:43 +02:00
hush_doc.txt hush: implement break and continue 2008-07-28 23:04:34 +00:00
hush_leaktool.sh hush: fix "export not_yet_defined_var", fix parsing of "cmd | }" 2009-04-19 23:07:51 +00:00
hush.c hush: correct description for HUSH_TICK config option 2018-11-14 11:35:58 +01:00
Kbuild.src Make it possible to select "sh" and "bash" aliases without selecting ash or hush 2016-12-23 16:56:43 +01:00
match.c hush: fix a='a\\'; echo "${a%\\\\}" 2018-03-02 20:48:36 +01:00
match.h hush: optimize #[#] and %[%] for speed. size -2 bytes. 2010-09-04 21:21:07 +02:00
math.c shell: handle $((NUM++...) like bash does. Closes 10706 2018-01-28 20:13:33 +01:00
math.h Make it possible to select "sh" and "bash" aliases without selecting ash or hush 2016-12-23 16:56:43 +01:00
random.c whitespace fixes 2018-07-17 15:04:17 +02:00
random.h ash,hush: improve randomness of $RANDOM, add easy-ish way to test it 2014-03-13 12:52:43 +01:00
README update shell/README 2010-05-20 12:56:14 +02:00
README.job hush: small code shrink; style fixes 2007-04-20 08:35:45 +00:00
shell_common.c ash,hush: fold shell_builtin_read() way-too-many params into a struct param 2018-08-05 18:11:15 +02:00
shell_common.h ash,hush: fold shell_builtin_read() way-too-many params into a struct param 2018-08-05 18:11:15 +02:00

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7


http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap01.html
Shell & Utilities

It says that any of the standard utilities may be implemented
as a regular shell built-in. It gives a list of utilities which
are usually implemented that way (and some of them can only
be implemented as built-ins, like "alias"):

alias
bg
cd
command
false
fc
fg
getopts
jobs
kill
newgrp
pwd
read
true
umask
unalias
wait


http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html
Shell Command Language

It says that shell must implement special built-ins. Special built-ins
differ from regular ones by the fact that variable assignments
done on special builtin are *PRESERVED*. That is,

VAR=VAL special_builtin; echo $VAR

should print VAL.

(Another distinction is that an error in special built-in should
abort the shell, but this is not such a critical difference,
and moreover, at least bash's "set" does not follow this rule,
which is even codified in autoconf configure logic now...)

List of special builtins:

. file
: [argument...]
break [n]
continue [n]
eval [argument...]
exec [command [argument...]]
exit [n]
export name[=word]...
export -p
readonly name[=word]...
readonly -p
return [n]
set [-abCefhmnuvx] [-o option] [argument...]
set [+abCefhmnuvx] [+o option] [argument...]
set -- [argument...]
set -o
set +o
shift [n]
times
trap n [condition...]
trap [action condition...]
unset [-fv] name...

In practice, no one uses this obscure feature - none of these builtins
gives any special reasons to play such dirty tricks.

However. This section also says that *function invocation* should act
similar to special built-in. That is, variable assignments
done on function invocation should be preserved after function invocation.

This is significant: it is not unthinkable to want to run a function
with some variables set to special values. But because of the above,
it does not work: variable will "leak" out of the function.