* 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.
+
+* 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
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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)
+-----------
+
+Write a fixup_globals function to do just that right before calling
+non-forking applets. Or, just always fork...
+
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-Running the following:
+Run 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.
-
-(BTW, this is more informative if BB_FEATURE_NFSMOUNT is turned off...)
-
-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.
+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.
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