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@@ -16,14 +16,11 @@ Rob Landley suggested these:
   Figure out where we need utf8 support, and add it.
 
   sh
-    The command shell situation is a big mess.  We have three different
+    The command shell situation is a mess.  We have two different
     shells that don't really share any code, and the "standalone shell" doesn't
     work all that well (especially not in a chroot environment), due to apps not
     being reentrant.
-    lash is phased out. hush can be configured down to be nearly as small,
-    but less buggy :)
-  init
-    General cleanup (should use ENABLE_FEATURE_INIT_SYSLOG).
+
   Do a SUSv3 audit
     Look at the full Single Unix Specification version 3 (available online at
     "http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/nfindex.html") and
@@ -32,6 +29,7 @@ Rob Landley suggested these:
 
     Even better would be some kind of automated compliance test harness that
     exercises each command line option and the various corner cases.
+
   Internationalization
     How much internationalization should we do?
 
@@ -265,7 +263,7 @@ Minor stuff:
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   possible code duplication ingroup() and is_a_group_member()
 ---
-  Move __get_hz() to a better place and (re)use it in route.c, ash.c, msh.c
+  Move __get_hz() to a better place and (re)use it in route.c, ash.c
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   See grep -r strtod
   Alot of duplication that wants cleanup.
@@ -273,7 +271,8 @@ Minor stuff:
   in_ether duplicated in network/{interface,ifconfig}.c
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   unify progress_meter. wget, flash_eraseall, pipe_progress, fbsplash, setfiles.
-
+---
+   support start-stop-daemon -d <chdir-path>
 
 Code cleanup:
 
@@ -282,3 +281,100 @@ Replace deprecated functions.
 ---
 vdprintf() -> similar sized functionality
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+
+(TODO list after discussion 11.05.2009)
+
+* shrink tc/brctl/ip
+  tc/brctl seem like fairly large things to try and tackle in your timeframe,
+  and i think people have posted attempts in the past. Adding additional
+  options to ip though seems reasonable.
+
+* add tests for some applets
+
+* implement POSIX utilities and audit them for POSIX conformance. then
+  audit them for GNU conformance. then document all your findings in a new
+  doc/conformance.txt file while perhaps implementing some of the missing
+  features.
+  you can find the latest POSIX documentation (1003.1-2008) here:
+  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
+  and the complete list of all utilities that POSIX covers:
+  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/idx/utilities.html
+  The first step would to generate a file/matrix what is already archived
+  (also IPV6)
+
+* ntpdate/ntpd (see ntpclient and openntp for examples)
+
+* implement 'at'
+
+* rpcbind (former portmap) or equivalent
+  so that we don't have to use -o nolock on nfs mounts
+
+* check IPV6 compliance
+
+* generate a mini example using kernel+busybox only (+libc) for example
+
+* more support for advanced linux 2.6.x features, see: iotop
+  most likely there is more
+
+* even more support for statistics: mpstat, iostat, powertop....
+
+
+Unicode work needed:
+
+Unicode support uses libc multibyte functions if LOCALE_SUPPORT is on
+(in this case, the code will also support many more encodings),
+or uses a limited subset of re-implemented multibyte functions
+which only understand "one byte == one char" and unicode.
+This is useful if you build against uclibc with locale support disabled.
+
+Unicode-dependent applets must call check_unicode_in_env() when they
+begin executing.
+
+Applet code may conditionalize on FEATURE_ASSUME_UNICODE
+in order to use more efficient code if unicode support is not requested.
+
+Available functions (if you need more, implement them in libbb/unicode.c
+so that they work without LOCALE_SUPPORT too):
+
+int bb_mbstrlen(str) - multibyte-aware strlen
+size_t mbstowcs(wdest, src, n)
+size_t wcstombs(dest, wsrc, n)
+size_t wcrtomb(str, wc, wstate)
+int iswspace(wc)
+int iswalnum(wc)
+int iswpunct(wc)
+
+Applets which only need to align columns on screen correctly:
+
+ls - already done, use source as an example
+df
+dumpleases
+lsmod
+
+Applets which need to account for Unicode chars
+while processing the output:
+
+[un]expand
+fold
+man
+watch
+cut (-b and -c are currently the same, needs fixing)
+
+These applets need to ensure that unicode input
+is handled correctly (say, <unicode><backspace> sequence):
+
+getty, login
+rm -i
+unzip (overwrite prompt)
+
+Viewers/editors are more difficult (many cases to get right).
+libbb/lineedit.c is an example how to do it:
+
+less, most, ed, vi
+awk
+[ef]grep
+sed
+
+Probably needs some specialized work:
+
+loadkeys