cp: make "cp file /dev/node" special case; explained in comments

[oweals/busybox.git] / TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 78f48fc014e3a200bfb11aba3334b01c24a25693..10ed7e0d53f14600ca2ce86a9accd68652607452 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -36,12 +36,7 @@ Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>:
     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()
-      coreutils/uudecode.c:read_base64()
-      coreutils/uuencode.c:tbl_base64[]
-      networking/httpd.c:decodeBase64()
-    And probably elsewhere.  That needs to be unified into libbb functions.
+    [done]
   Do a SUSv3 audit
     Look at the full Single Unix Specification version 3 (available online at
     "http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/nfindex.html") and
@@ -130,7 +125,6 @@ Bernhard Fischer <busybox@busybox.net> suggests to look at these:
     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.
 
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@@ -154,6 +148,10 @@ patch
   And while we're at it, a new patch filename quoting format is apparently
   coming soon:  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=112927316408690&w=2
 ---
+ps / top
+  Add support for both RSS and VSIZE rather than just one or the other.
+  Or make it a build option.
+---
 man
   It would be nice to have a man command.  Not one that handles troff or
   anything, just one that can handle preformatted ascii man pages, possibly
@@ -164,15 +162,20 @@ man
 ---
 ar
   Write support?
-----
+---
 stty / catv
   stty's visible() function and catv's guts are identical. Merge them into
   an appropriate libbb function.
-----
+---
 struct suffix_mult
   Several duplicate users of: grep -r "1024\*1024" * -B2 -A1
   Merge to a single size_suffixes[] in libbb.
   Users: head tail od_bloaty hexdump and (partially as it wouldn't hurt) svlogd
+---
+tail
+  ./busybox tail -f foo.c~ TODO
+  should not print fmt=header_fmt for subsequent date >> TODO; i.e. only
+  fmt+ if another (not the current) file did change
 
 Architectural issues: