Rob Landley's Blog Thing for 2025

I got a couple of bug reports about selinux support in tar, which collectively imply that Elliott never tested archive creation, only extraction.

$ alias ls='ls -l' $ ls sh: ls -l: No such file or directory I was TRYING to confirm that alias isn't recursive, but...

Busy in Tokyo with other things (Jeff's stuff), haven't been using my laptop and thus haven't been blogging.

Trying to glue the cleaned up blake3 implementation into toybox, which would be easy to do if there weren't two codepaths.

I have a very nice room in a "monthly mansion", through the 27th.

(It's really still the same day, but international dateline.)

The plane's completely full (I know because the checkin kiosk did this "bid to be bumped" pop-up thing, $500 was the max of the anchoring options and they didn't bite when I hit it), but I have an aisle seat so managed to do a little work on my laptop.

Preparing for my flight to Tokyo tomorrow morning: full backup of my laptop less than a week ago is probably good enough.

The FSF remains surprisingly incompetent: $ tar xvf gdb-6.12.xz $ cd gdb-6.12 $ tar xvf ..

I have been pointed at a small simple public domain blake3 implementation, which seems a good thing to glue into toybox.

I want to replace TOYBOX_LIBCRYPTO and TOYBOX_LIBZ (and WGET_LIBTLS) with a single global switch that says always use internal implementations even when there's an external library with a potentially faster version of stuff.

Woo, I edited past the blockage and may actually have 2024 up and be on to a 2025 public blog file soon!

The second bug making mkroot/testroot.sh hang doing "toybox timeout -i 10 bash -c .

The tiny desk thing remains better than nothing.

I've been variants of under the weather for over a month (the stress isn't helping), and haven't even gone out to the apartment's front office since... new year's?