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).
-* Networking apps are probably going to be split out some time soon into a
- separate package (named perhaps tiny-netkit?). This currently includes
- hostid, hostname, mnc, and ping.
+* 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.
+* The busybox shell, lash, is really too weak for serious use, although it is
+ possible to run simple systems with it. BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have
+ a new shell, updated to understand full Bourne grammer. Well, that simply
+ didn't happen in time for the release. A rewrite is in progress that will
+ result in a new shell that understands the full Bourne grammar. This new
+ shell is being championed by Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov>, and
+ could use your help. Please see the work in progress at
+ http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html
-Erik
-----------
-* Allow tar to create archives with sockets, devices, and other special files
-* Make insmod actually work
-* dnsdomainname
-* traceroute/netstat
-* rdate
-* hwclock
-* killall
-* stty
-* tr
-* expr (maybe?) (ash builtin?)
-
+Possible apps to include some time:
+* hwclock
+* group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n)
+-----------
-Some known bugs, todo items, etc...
+Write a fixup_globals function to do just that right before calling
+non-forking applets. Or, just always fork...
-----------------------
+Run the following:
-[andersen@slag busybox]$ ./busybox du /bin
-6213 /bin
-[andersen@slag busybox]$ du /bin
-2971 /bin
-[andersen@slag busybox]$ du --block-size=512 /bin
-5943 /bin
+ rm -f busybox && make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | \
+ sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq
------------------------
-
--rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 4398 2000-01-06 21:55 uniq.c
--rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 1568 1999-10-20 18:08 update.c
--rw-r----- 0/1000 1168 2000-01-29 21:03 update.o
--rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 22820 2000-01-05 11:36 utility.c
--rw-r----- 0/1000 7372 2000-01-29 21:03 utility.o
-tar: Skipping to next file header
-tar: Skipping to next file header
-tar: Archive - EOF not on block boundary
-tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
+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.
+-----------------------
-#1 You are storing by id instead of name like normal tar. Did you realize this?
-(or am I missing some compile option? )ctar did not do this, and I don't think
-it's a good idea for LRP.
+Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox'
+and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller...
-#2
-ctar did not produce the EOF error like your tar does. I believe you need to
-pad the end of the archive with at least 2 tarsized (512byte) blocks. (I
-think???)
+-----------------------
-#3
-There is no exclude file(s) option to tar. LRP's packaging system can not
-function without this. Will you have the time to add this soon?
+ du.c probably ought to have an -x switch like GNU du does...
+------------------------------------------------------------------
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