Looking for a simpler version of BusyBox for educational purposes

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  • Sure... There are symlinks in the installation, and there's a small main() function that dispatches execution to the appropriate function based on argv[0], but that doesn't significantly impact the C implementation of each individual tool. Those seem pretty straightforward, to me. A developer reading.. e.g. chmod.c isn't going to see any evidence of symlinks, and minimal impact from the external main() function.

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