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author | Ron Yorston <rmy@pobox.com> | 2021-02-10 09:48:27 +0000 |
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committer | Ron Yorston <rmy@pobox.com> | 2021-02-10 09:48:27 +0000 |
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21 | ### Limitations | 21 | ### Limitations |
22 | 22 | ||
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 | - Windows paths are different from Unix: | 24 | - Windows paths are different from Unix ([more detail](https://frippery.org/busybox/paths.html)): |
25 | * Absolute paths: `c:/path` or `//host/share` | 25 | * Absolute paths: `c:/path` or `//host/share` |
26 | * Relative to current directory of other drive: `c:path` | 26 | * Relative to current directory of other drive: `c:path` |
27 | * Relative to current root (drive or share): `/path` | 27 | * Relative to current root (drive or share): `/path` |
28 | * Relative to current directory of current root (drive or share): `path` | 28 | * Relative to current directory of current root (drive or share): `path` |
29 | For more details see this page on [pathnames](https://frippery.org/busybox/paths.html). | ||
30 | - 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. |
31 | - 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. |
32 | - 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. |