Fix env usage information.

[oweals/busybox.git] / TODO

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@@ -8,7 +8,15 @@ around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know.
 
 * 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 default busybox shell, lash, is really too weak for serious use,
+    although it is possible to run many simple systems with it.  BusyBox
+    0.52 now contains a rewritten shell, hush, which understands most
+    Bourne grammar, with only about a 4 Kbyte binary size penalty.  You can
+    engage hush at pre-compile time by "ln -sf hush.c sh.c; touch hush.c".
+    Hush is young, and has plenty of bugs to shake out, so think twice before
+    using it for production systems.  We welcome bug reports and patches.
 
  -Erik
 
@@ -17,18 +25,19 @@ around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know.
 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
@@ -40,23 +49,6 @@ 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...
 
@@ -64,4 +56,8 @@ and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller...
 
  du.c probably ought to have an -x switch like GNU du does...
 
+-----------------------
+
+xargs could use a -l option
+
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