Make cin be static

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-TODO list for busybox in no particular order
-
-* Add in a mini syslogd
-* Allow tar to create archives with sockets, devices, and other special files
-* Add in a mini modprobe, insmod, rmmod
-* poweroff
-* Change init so halt, reboot (and poweroff) work with an initrd
-    when init is not PID 1
-* 
+TODO list for busybox in no particular order. Just because something
+is listed here doesn't mean that it is going to be added to busybox,
+or that doing so is even a good idea. It just means that I _might_ get
+around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know.
+
+* login/sulogin/passwd/getty/etc are part of tinylogin, and so are not
+    needed or wanted in busybox (or else I'd have to link to libcrypt).
+
+* We _were_ going to split networking apps into a new package called 
+    netkit-tiny.  Per discussions on the mailing list, this isn't going
+    to happen.  False alarm.  Sorry about the confusion.
+
+ -Erik
+
+-----------
+
+Possible apps to include some time:
+
+* hwclock
+* stty
+* group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n)
+
+-----------------------
+
+The Busybox lash shell needs to be taught Bourne shell grammer.  This
+is planned for the next release of Busybox.  Look out ash, we are coming
+for you...
+
+-----------------------
+
+Running the following:
+
+    rm -f busybox && make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | \
+       sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq
+
+reveals the list of all external (i.e. libc) things that BusyBox depends on.
+It would be a very nice thing to reduce this list to an absolute minimum, to
+reduce the footprint of busybox, especially when staticly linking with
+libraries such as uClibc.
+
+-----------------------
+
+Currently, busybox bypasses libc NSS.  Some folks might want that,
+so perhaps adding in the option to choose whether to go to libc for
+things like getpwnam() or whether to use the busybox version might 
+be nice.
+
+-----------------------
+
+Most wanted list:
+
+    [andersen@slag busybox]$ grep -l getgroups *.[ch]
+    test.c
+
+Policy violation.  getgroups uses libc nss, which is unlikely
+to be present in an embedded system.
+
+-----------------------
+
+Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox'
+and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller...
+
+-----------------------
+
+ du.c probably ought to have an -x switch like GNU du does...
+
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