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 in libcrypt).
9 * Networking apps are probably going to be split out some time soon into a
10 separate package (named perhaps tiny-netkit?). This currently includes
11 hostid, hostname, mnc, and ping.
13 * init's waitfor() calls wait() which can catch and ignore the wrong pid
14 exiting. That other process is then not restarted.
22 * Allow tar to create archives with sockets, devices, and other special files
23 * Make insmod actually work
25 * traceroute/nslookup/netstat
31 * expr (maybe?) (ash builtin?)
36 Some known bugs, todo items, etc...
38 -----------------------
41 [andersen@slag busybox]$ ./busybox du /bin
43 [andersen@slag busybox]$ du /bin
45 [andersen@slag busybox]$ du --block-size=512 /bin
48 -----------------------
50 -rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 4398 2000-01-06 21:55 uniq.c
51 -rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 1568 1999-10-20 18:08 update.c
52 -rw-r----- 0/1000 1168 2000-01-29 21:03 update.o
53 -rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 22820 2000-01-05 11:36 utility.c
54 -rw-r----- 0/1000 7372 2000-01-29 21:03 utility.o
55 tar: Skipping to next file header
56 tar: Skipping to next file header
57 tar: Archive - EOF not on block boundary
58 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
61 #1 You are storing by id instead of name like normal tar. Did you realize this?
62 (or am I missing some compile option? )ctar did not do this, and I don't think
63 it's a good idea for LRP.
66 ctar did not produce the EOF error like your tar does. I believe you need to
67 pad the end of the archive with at least 2 tarsized (512byte) blocks. (I
71 There is no exclude file(s) option to tar. LRP's packaging system can not
72 function without this. Will you have the time to add this soon?