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-Bugs that need fixing before the 0.44 release goes out the door:
+Bugs that need fixing:
- - mkfs.minix rev 1.7 completely broke the parser. Fix it.
- - 'grep foo$ file' doesn't work
- - 'grep *foo file' segfaults
+ - 'ln -n' has been disabled for this release, till we can fix a memory
+ corruption bug.
+ - fix 'cp' (or test suite script) so that it passes the last item in
+ the test suite.
- ps dirent race bug (need to stat the file before attempting chdir)
- - The following commands segfault:
- chmod -R
- chown -R
- chgrp -R
- cp -a -a
- ln -s -s
- rm -f
- rm -f -
- rm -- -
- touch -c
- - I believe that swaponoff may also be also broken (check it).
- - It used to be that BusyBox tar would happily overwrite existing files on
- an extraction. However, as of 0.42, BusyBox tar simply dies as soon as an
- existing file is found.
- - Make 'mount -a' work even when /proc isn't mounted (ugly bug).
- - Make 'ln -s /tmp/file .' work the way GNU ln does (i.e. makes a link to
+ - Make 'ln -s /tmp/file .' work the way GNU ln does (i.e. makes a link to
/tmp/file in the current directory, rather then trying and failing to create
a symlink named "." in the current working directory).
- - implement 'ls -R'.
- - "cp -a sourcedir/*" (note: no dest) - produces an odd error message about
- the last file in the dir, rather than saying "missing destination file".
- - "math" should also take input from stdin
- - "more" doesn't accept " " to scroll by one page when BB_FEATURE_USE_TERMIOS
- is not on.
+ - Prune sfdisk, graft in std fdisk instead
+
+
+We will rework these to use libc regex functions instead (as per the mailing
+list discussion):
+ - 'grep foo$ file' doesn't work
+ - 'grep *foo file' segfaults
+-----------
+
+Linux 2.4.x kernels
+
+BusyBox 0.46 currently will not work with the Linux 2.4.x kernels.
+I know of the following problems:
+
+1) BusyBox NFS support is broken with 2.4.x (needs to be adjusted for NFSv3 and
+ kernel header changes).
+
+As long as I have BB_FEATURE_NFSMOUNT turned off, everything compiles cleanly
+for me with linux2.4.0test2. I use Debian potato (gcc 2.95.2, GNU libc 2.1.3).
+Of course, as noted above, compiling != working.
+
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* Make insmod actually work
* tftp
* ftp
* group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n)
-
+* consider making a unified option parser (if it can be done
+ modular, small, etc.)
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Policy violation. getgroups uses libc nss, which is unlikely
to be present in an embedded system.
-To be replaced with a busybox local glob routine:
-
- [andersen@slag busybox]$ grep -l glob *.[ch]
- gunzip.c
- gzip.c
- sh.c
- tar.c
- telnet.c
-
-Can check_wildcard_match() from utility.c do this job?
-
-
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Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox'