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abase - Aba's tools
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abase is a collection of tools that didn't fit into ubase or sbase.
Currently it contains the following:
- a very simple 'more' pager
- a simple 'hexdump'
- a 'fdisk' (but we have to decide for which kind of partition types
and what kind of operations, could be too big)
- a 'ifconfig': show and configure simple interfaces
- a 'ping': test a network connection
- a 'netstat': see list of active connections of a machine
- a 'mkswap': swapon/swapoff/swaplabel exist, so we should also be able
to create a swap
- 'fsck.ext4', 'mkfs.ext4': if ext4 is the only file system we support
- 'nbd-client': for NBD root mounts
play with hardware. dependencies can also be done from the text
modules.dep file and a samurai or simplistic make, 'modprobe' as
shell wrapper on dependencies and insmod calls
- 'stty' maybe for setting line serial parameters
- 'top': a really simple one
Note: abase is a shameless copy of sbase/ubase in certain areas like
the Makefile, libutil, etc. This might also make an integration into
sbase/ubase easier.
Building
--------
To build abase, simply type make. You may have to fiddle with config.mk
depending on your system.
You can also build abase-box, which generates a single binary containing
all the required tools. You can then symlink the individual tools to
abase-box or run: make abase-box-install
Ideally you will want to statically link abase. If you are on Linux we
recommend using musl-libc[1].
Portability
-----------
Not really tested so far, but you should be able to build it with
gcc, clang, tcc, nwcc and pcc.
Bugs and Questions
------------------
- more
- even non-line keyboard input is not portable
- how to enable terminal formatting like bold and make things not
depend on ncurses/termcap?
- ifconfig
- implementations
- GNU net-tools
- net-3-tools
- nosh
- netlink api or ioctls
References
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- ping:
- https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ping-in-c/
- Stevens Network Programming, Vol. 1
[1] http://www.musl-libc.org/
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