or that doing so is even a good idea. It just means that I _might_ get
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 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.
+
+* 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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-* Allow tar to create archives with sockets, devices, and other special files
-* Add in a mini insmod, rmmod, lsmod
-* Change init so halt, reboot (and poweroff) work with an initrd
- when init is not PID 1
-* poweroff
-* mkfifo
-* dnsdomainname
-* traceroute/nslookup/netstat
-* rdate
+Possible apps to include some time:
+
* hwclock
-* killall
-* tee
-* stty
-* head
-* sort/uniq
-* wc
-* tr
-* expr (maybe)? (ash builtin?)
-* login/sulogin/passwd/getty (These are actully now part of tinylogin, which
- I've just started to maintain).
+* 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...
+
+-----------------------
+
+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, to
+reduce the footprint of busybox, especially when staticly linking with
+libraries such as uClibc.
+
+-----------------------
+
+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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