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 in libcrypt).
+ 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
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-* Allow tar to create archives with sockets, devices, and other special files
-* Make insmod actually work
-* init clearly needs to support some type of minimalist /etc/inittab. I
- currently have _way_ too much policy hardcoded in the source. Adding
- support for getty has made me realize how much that sucks.
-* dnsdomainname
-* traceroute/nslookup/netstat
-* rdate
+Possible apps to include some time:
+
* hwclock
-* killall
* stty
-* sort/uniq
-* wc
-* tr
-* expr (maybe?) (ash builtin?)
+* 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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