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 we _might_ get
4 around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please send them
11 Possible apps to include some time:
13 * group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n)
17 With sysvinit, reboot, poweroff and halt all used a named pipe,
18 /dev/initctl, to communicate with the init process. Busybox
19 currently uses signals to communicate with init. This makes
20 busybox incompatible with sysvinit. We should probably use
21 a named pipe as well so we can be compatible.
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27 rm -f busybox && make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | \
28 sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq
30 reveals the list of all external (i.e., libc) things that BusyBox depends on.
31 It would be a very nice thing to reduce this list to an absolute minimum, to
32 reduce the footprint of busybox, especially when staticly linking with
33 libraries such as uClibc.
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37 Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox'
38 and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller...
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42 xargs could use a -l option
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46 libbb/unzip.c and archival/gzip.c have common constant static arrays and
47 code for initializing the CRC array. Both use CRC-32 and could use
48 common code for CRC calculation. Within archival/gzip.c, the CRC
49 array should be malloc-ed as it is in libbb/unzip.c .