* 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).
-* Networking apps are going to be split out to a new package called netkit-tiny
- before the next release of Busybox. This will remove the following items
- from BusyBox: hostid, hostname, nc, nslookup, telnet, and ping. nfs
- mounting and syslogd (network logging) will remain in BusyBox.
+* 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 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
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 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.
+reduce the footprint of busybox, especially when staticly linking with
+libraries such as uClibc.
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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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