TODO list for busybox in no particular order. Just because something
is listed here doesn't mean that it is going to be added to busybox,
-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.
+or that doing so is even a good idea. It just means that we _might_ get
+around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please send them
+on in...
-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...
+With sysvinit, reboot, poweroff and halt all used a named pipe,
+/dev/initctl, to communicate with the init process. Busybox
+currently uses signals to communicate with init. This makes
+busybox incompatible with sysvinit. We should probably use
+a named pipe as well so we can be compatible.
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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.
+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.
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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...
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- du.c probably ought to have an -x switch like GNU du does...
+xargs could use a -l option
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+
+libbb/unzip.c and archival/gzip.c have common constant static arrays and
+code for initializing the CRC array. Both use CRC-32 and could use
+common code for CRC calculation. Within archival/gzip.c, the CRC
+array should be malloc-ed as it is in libbb/unzip.c .
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