i've had lots of false starts with this but this time i'm confident i'll succeed
no idea when i'll have something ready though. i'm fixing/updating lobase and bringing that up to date. see:
https://github.com/Duncaen/lobase
this does most of what i want, but it's 5 years outdated. i've forked it and i'm gradually importing newer code from modern openbsd
i want this for linux distros that use busybox, so that they can... not use busybox, because busybox *sucks*