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Yeah. The whole point of busybox is to provide the POSIX commands in one compact executable. Making things work any other way defeats the entire purpose of busybox.



In other words: `busybox` is primarily an implementation of a _standard library_ and only secondarily a command line tool, so it _must_ use the standard names.




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