toybox
libarchive
| toybox | libarchive | |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | 33 | |
| 2,278 | 2,886 | |
| - | 3.0% | |
| 9.5 | 9.1 | |
| 7 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| BSD Zero Clause License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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toybox
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Aboriginal Linux
The successor project uses musl: https://github.com/landley/toybox/tree/master/mkroot
- GitHub - dcantrell/bsdutils: Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD
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BusyBox 1.36.0
Lazyweb, since searching for "Toybox" wasn't helpful: https://github.com/landley/toybox#readme (although "toybox shell" did help)
And it's BSD Zero Clause, for those who are curious: https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/0.8.8/LICENSE
- How efficient can cat(1) be?
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Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)
For those who liked this text and want to read more from the author, have a look at his busybox replacement toybox:
http://landley.net/toybox/
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Some well-documented, not GPL tar implementations or perhaps a course material on implementing tar?
No idea if it supports what you need but toybox has an implementation of tar.
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Hacker News top posts: Sep 25, 2021
Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line\ (61 comments)
- Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line
libarchive
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The XZ attack and timeline
29. October 2021 At this point Jia Tan pops up, and the first thing we see from him is an innocuous patch to the xz repository, and while a lot of people believe he started out trying his luck with another library also known as libarchive, this is not the case, I would bet it’s more of a backup looking at the dates, being that there are a few days in between as shown in this commit.
- Zip entry size unset now honors user requested compression level
- Suspicious libarchive pull request
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Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
Potentially malicious commit by same author on libarchive: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1609
- WinRAR musste shady werden.
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Making Amiga IFF Thumbnails Work in Linux
Full agreement, and with the addition of xpk¹/xfd² as natural extensions to that extensibility too. I see things like xfd supporting xz¹, and I'm simultaneously amazed that it exists and happy that I don't need to do xz {,de}compression on 68k ;)
I guess we have something similar-ish with libarchive⁴, but nobody(including me) has pushed the extra mile to get file dialogs to support random compression and decompression formats.
Beyond OT: I didn't realise how much stuff was still going on at aminet, but I love love LOVE that people are still dropping new car sets for Geoff Crammond's F1GP.
¹ http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xpk_User
² http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xfdmaster
³ http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xfd_lzma.lha
⁴ https://www.libarchive.org/
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WinRAR zero-day exploited since April to hack trading accounts
I don't have a preview channel install handy to check, but apparently they're using libarchive so here's the full list assuming they expose everything it supports:
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/LibarchiveForm...
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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23493 for the Dev Channel
As announced at the Build conference back in May, this build adds native support for reading additional archive file formats using the libarchive open-source project such as
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Poor winrar
LibarchiveFormats · libarchive/libarchive Wiki · GitHub
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Windows 11 getting native support for 7-Zip, RAR, and GZ archives
Seems what they're using is BSD-liscensed: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki
What are some alternatives?
busybox - Docker Official Image packaging for Busybox
ZLib - A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.
bc - An implementation of the POSIX bc calculator with GNU extensions and dc, moved away from GitHub. Finished, but well-maintained.
7z - Because 7-zip source code was in a 7z archive [mirror]
coreutils - upstream mirror
p7zip - A new p7zip fork with additional codecs and improvements (forked from https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/ AND https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/).
bsdutils - Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD
fpart - Sort files and pack them into partitions
BSDGames - Text based games from Debian - bsdgames package.
pixz - Parallel, indexed xz compressor
flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
Klib - A standalone and lightweight C library