Toybox: Writing a New Command Line From Scratch
summary
Toybox is a fresh, BSD licensed reimplementation of the Linux/Android command line that aims to replace Android toolbox with a small, auditable, multi-call binary. It implements a curated subset of POSIX 2008 and LSB, targets self-hosting phones by working with musl and LLVM toolchains, focuses on Linux containers (not SE Linux initially), provides mdev, networking and filesystem tools, and prioritizes simplicity so the codebase is easy to security-audit.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 2:38Usb Display
- 4:22Software That Android Needs To Become Self-Hosting
- 11:53Failure Modes
- 18:45Linux Containers
- 24:24Minimizing Your Build Dependencies
- 30:40The Original Toy Box Project
- 38:41Roadmap
- 41:35What's Involved in a Development Environment
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