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
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:
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
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+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
ar
Write support?
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+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: