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 * We _were_ going to split networking apps into a new package called
10 netkit-tiny. Per discussions on the mailing list, this isn't going
11 to happen. False alarm. Sorry about the confusion.
13 * The busybox shell, lash, is really too weak for serious use, although it is
14 possible to run many simple systems with it. BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to
15 have a new shell, updated to understand full Bourne grammar. Well, that
16 simply didn't happen in time for the release. A rewrite is in progress
17 that will result in a new shell that understands the full Bourne grammar.
18 This new shell is being championed by Larry Doolittle
19 <ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov>, and could use your help. Please see the work
20 in progress at http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html and help
27 Possible apps to include some time:
30 * group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n)
34 Write a fixup_globals function to do just that right before calling
35 non-forking applets. Or, just always fork in the shell...
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41 rm -f busybox && make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | \
42 sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq
44 reveals the list of all external (i.e. libc) things that BusyBox depends on.
45 It would be a very nice thing to reduce this list to an absolute minimum, to
46 reduce the footprint of busybox, especially when staticly linking with
47 libraries such as uClibc.
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51 Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox'
52 and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller...
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56 du.c probably ought to have an -x switch like GNU du does...
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60 xargs could use a -l option
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