- constify some read-only members and remove superfluous casts

[oweals/busybox.git] / TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 70d01290b44ae40a32056e6897c9ebe298d695b7..f0b720ba4a7ae5d22f09f00f001bf9977a7965b3 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>:
     Compression-side support.
   init
     General cleanup (should use ENABLE_FEATURE_INIT_SYSLOG and ENABLE_FEATURE_INIT_DEBUG).
     Compression-side support.
   init
     General cleanup (should use ENABLE_FEATURE_INIT_SYSLOG and ENABLE_FEATURE_INIT_DEBUG).

+  depmod
+    busybox lacks a way to update module deps when running from firmware without the
+    use of the depmod.pl (perl is to bloated for most embedded setups) and or orig
+    modutils. The orig depmod is rather pointless to have to add to a firmware image
+    in when we already have a insmod/rmmod and friends.

   Unify base64 handling.
     There's base64 encoding and decoding going on in:
       networking/wget.c:base64enc()
   Unify base64 handling.
     There's base64 encoding and decoding going on in:
       networking/wget.c:base64enc()


@@ -112,13 +117,20 @@ Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>:
     This one's open to everybody, but I'll wind up doing it...
 
 
     This one's open to everybody, but I'll wind up doing it...
 
 

-Bernhard Fischer <rep.nop@anon.at>:
-  Makefile stuff:
-    make -j is broken, -j1 is forced atm
+Bernhard Fischer <busybox@busybox.net> suggests to look at these:

   New debug options:
     -Wlarger-than-127
   New debug options:
     -Wlarger-than-127

+    Cleanup any big users
+    -Wunused-parameter
+    Facilitate applet PROTOTYPES to provide means for having applets that
+    do a) not take any arguments b) need only one of argc or argv c) need
+    both argc and argv. All of these three options should go for the most
+    feature complete denominator.

   Collate BUFSIZ IOBUF_SIZE MY_BUF_SIZE PIPE_PROGRESS_SIZE BUFSIZE PIPESIZE
   Collate BUFSIZ IOBUF_SIZE MY_BUF_SIZE PIPE_PROGRESS_SIZE BUFSIZE PIPESIZE

-    Use bb_common_bufsiz1?
+    make bb_common_bufsiz1 configurable, size wise.
+    make pipesize configurable, size wise.
+    Use bb_common_bufsiz1 throughout applets!
+  Add chrt applet. Please CC Bernhard if you suggest a patch.

 
 As yet unclaimed:
 
 
 As yet unclaimed:
 


@@ -130,10 +142,10 @@ diff
   Make sure we handle empty files properly:
     From the patch man page:
 
   Make sure we handle empty files properly:
     From the patch man page:
 

-   you can remove a file by sending out a context diff that compares
-   the file to be deleted with an empty file dated the Epoch.  The
-   file will be removed unless patch is conforming to POSIX and the
-   -E or --remove-empty-files option is not given.
+    you can remove a file by sending out a context diff that compares
+    the file to be deleted with an empty file dated the Epoch.  The
+    file will be removed unless patch is conforming to POSIX and the
+    -E or --remove-empty-files option is not given.

 ---
 patch
   Should have simple fuzz factor support to apply patches at an offset which
 ---
 patch
   Should have simple fuzz factor support to apply patches at an offset which


@@ -153,8 +165,6 @@ man
 ar
   Write support?
 ---
 ar
   Write support?
 ---

-crond
-  turn FEATURE_DEBUG_OPT into ENABLE_FEATURE_CROND_DEBUG_OPT

 
 Architectural issues:
 
 
 Architectural issues:
 


@@ -250,7 +260,7 @@ FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
   jumps out of the normal flow control and bypasses any cleanup code we
   put at the end of our applets.
 
   jumps out of the normal flow control and bypasses any cleanup code we
   put at the end of our applets.
 

-  It's possible to add hooks to libbb functions like xmalloc() and bb_xopen()
+  It's possible to add hooks to libbb functions like xmalloc() and xopen()

   to add their entries to a linked list, which could be traversed and
   freed/closed automatically.  (This would need to be able to free just the
   entries after a checkpoint to be usable for a forkless standalone shell.
   to add their entries to a linked list, which could be traversed and
   freed/closed automatically.  (This would need to be able to free just the
   entries after a checkpoint to be usable for a forkless standalone shell.


@@ -283,8 +293,7 @@ Minor stuff:
 ---
   possible code duplication ingroup() and is_a_group_member()
 ---
 ---
   possible code duplication ingroup() and is_a_group_member()
 ---

-  unify itoa: netstat.c, hush.c, lash.c, msh.c
-  Put one single, robust version into e.g. safe_strtol.c
+  Move __get_hz() to a better place and (re)use it in route.c, ash.c, msh.c

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@@ -298,4 +307,3 @@ sigblock(), siggetmask(), sigsetmask(), sigmask() -> sigprocmask et al
 ---
 vdprintf() -> similar sized functionality
 ---
 ---
 vdprintf() -> similar sized functionality
 ---

-