* 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.
+ 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
Possible apps to include some time:
* hwclock
-* stty
* 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...
+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
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-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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-
-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.
-
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-
Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox'
and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller...