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authorRon Yorston <rmy@pobox.com>2021-02-07 14:48:38 +0000
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21### Limitations 21### Limitations
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23 - Use forward slashes in paths: Windows doesn't mind and the shell will be happier. 23 - Use forward slashes in paths: Windows doesn't mind and the shell will be happier.
24 - Don't do wild things with Windows drive or UNC notation. 24 - Windows paths are different from Unix:
25 - Wildcard expansion is disabled by default, though it can be turned on at compile time. This only affects command line arguments to the binary: the BusyBox shell has full support for wildcards. 25 * Absolute paths: `c:/path` or `//host/share`
26 * Relative to current directory of other drive: `c:path`
27 * Relative to current root (drive or share): `/path`
28 * Relative to current directory of current root (drive or share): `path`
26 - Handling of users, groups and permissions is totally bogus. The system only admits to knowing about the current user and always returns the same hardcoded uid, gid and permission values. 29 - Handling of users, groups and permissions is totally bogus. The system only admits to knowing about the current user and always returns the same hardcoded uid, gid and permission values.
27 - Some crufty old Windows code (Windows XP, cmd.exe) doesn't like forward slashes in environment variables. The -X shell option (which must be the first argument) prevents busybox-w32 from changing backslashes to forward slashes. If Windows programs don't run from the shell it's worth trying it. 30 - Some crufty old Windows code (Windows XP, cmd.exe) doesn't like forward slashes in environment variables. The -X shell option (which must be the first argument) prevents busybox-w32 from changing backslashes to forward slashes. If Windows programs don't run from the shell it's worth trying it.
28 - If you want to install 32-bit BusyBox in a system directory on a 64-bit version of Windows you should put it in `C:\Windows\SysWOW64`, not `C:\Windows\System32` as you might expect. On 64-bit systems the latter is for 64-bit binaries. 31 - If you want to install 32-bit BusyBox in a system directory on a 64-bit version of Windows you should put it in `C:\Windows\SysWOW64`, not `C:\Windows\System32` as you might expect. On 64-bit systems the latter is for 64-bit binaries.