1 TODO list for busybox in no particular order. Just because something
2 is listed here doesn't mean that it is going to be added to busybox,
3 or that doing so is even a good idea. It just means that I _might_ get
4 around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know.
6 * login/sulogin/passwd/getty/etc are part of tinylogin, and so are not
7 needed or wanted in busybox (or else I'd have to link to libcrypt).
9 * Networking apps are probably going to be split out some time soon into a
10 separate package (named perhaps netkit-tiny?). This would remove the
11 following items from BusyBox: hostid, hostname, nc, nslookup, telnet, and
12 ping. nfs mounting and syslogd (network logging) will remain in BusyBox.
24 * group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n)
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28 Running the following:
30 rm -f busybox && make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | \
31 sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq
33 reveals the list of all external (i.e. libc) things that BusyBox depends on.
34 It would be a very nice thing to reduce this list to an absolute minimum, and
35 then create a microLibc to provide these functions. There is no good reason
36 for GNU libc to be so big. I'm sure it can be a lot better.
38 (BTW, this is more informative if BB_FEATURE_NFSMOUNT is turned off...)
42 [andersen@slag busybox]$ grep -l getgroups *.[ch]
45 Policy violation. getgroups uses libc nss, which is unlikely
46 to be present in an embedded system.
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50 Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox'
51 and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller...
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55 du.c probably ought to have an -x switch like GNU du does...
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