* 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).
-* Networking apps are probably going to be split out some time soon into a
- separate package (named perhaps netkit-tiny?). This would remove the
- following items from BusyBox: hostid, hostname, nc, nslookup, telnet, and
- ping. nfs mounting and syslogd (network logging) will remain in BusyBox.
+* 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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-* dnsdomainname
-* traceroute/netstat
+Possible apps to include some time:
+
* hwclock
* stty
-* tftp
-* ftp
* group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n)
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+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, and
-then create a microLibc to provide these functions. There is no good reason
-for GNU libc to be so big. I'm sure it can be a lot better.
+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.
-(BTW, this is more informative if BB_FEATURE_NFSMOUNT is turned off...)
+-----------------------
+
+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.
+
+-----------------------
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