* archival/bunzip2.c (bunzip2_main): Do not remove files if writing to standard

[oweals/busybox.git] / TODO

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@@ -3,23 +3,15 @@ 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).
+* login/sulogin/passwd/etc are part of tinylogin.  We are in the
+    process of merging these applications into busybox, since the 
+    new build system allows us to add Libraries (i.e. libcrypt),
+    when certain applets are enabled.
 
 * 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 many 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 and help
-    us out.
-
  -Erik
 
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@@ -28,11 +20,16 @@ Possible apps to include some time:
 
 * hwclock
 * group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n)
+* login/sulogin/passwd/etc are part of tinylogin.  These are 
+    being merged into busybox as time allows.
 
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-Write a fixup_globals function to do just that right before calling
-non-forking applets.  Or, just always fork in the shell...
+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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@@ -41,7 +38,7 @@ 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.
@@ -55,4 +52,13 @@ 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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+
+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 .