fsync: new applet by Pekka Pessi (Pekka.Pessi AT nokia.com)

[oweals/busybox.git] / TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
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--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Rob Landley suggested these:
     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 and ENABLE_FEATURE_INIT_DEBUG).
+    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
@@ -99,15 +99,10 @@ Rob Landley suggested these:
     This one's open to everybody, but I'll wind up doing it...
 
 
-Bernhard Fischer <busybox@busybox.net> suggests to look at these:
+Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <busybox@busybox.net> suggests to look at these:
   New debug options:
     -Wlarger-than-127
     Cleanup any big users
-    -Wunused-parameter
-    Facilitate applet PROTOTYPES to provide means for having applets that
-    do a) not take any arguments b) need only one of argc or argv c) need
-    both argc and argv. All of these three options should go for the most
-    feature complete denominator.
   Collate BUFSIZ IOBUF_SIZE MY_BUF_SIZE PIPE_PROGRESS_SIZE BUFSIZE PIPESIZE
     make bb_common_bufsiz1 configurable, size wise.
     make pipesize configurable, size wise.
@@ -132,14 +127,6 @@ patch
   And while we're at it, a new patch filename quoting format is apparently
   coming soon:  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=112927316408690&w=2
 ---
-man
-  It would be nice to have a man command.  Not one that handles troff or
-  anything, just one that can handle preformatted ascii man pages, possibly
-  compressed.  This could probably be a script in the extras directory that
-  calls cat/zcat/bzcat | less
-
-  (How doclifter might work into this is anybody's guess.)
----
 ar
   Write support!
 ---
@@ -183,8 +170,7 @@ Unify archivers
 ---
 Text buffer support.
   Several existing applets (sort, vi, less...) read
-  a whole file into memory and act on it.  There might be an opportunity
-  for shared code in there that could be moved into libbb...
+  a whole file into memory and act on it.  Use open_read_close().
 ---
 Memory Allocation
   We have a CONFIG_BUFFER mechanism that lets us select whether to do memory
@@ -236,7 +222,7 @@ Switch CONFIG_SYMBOLS to ENABLE_SYMBOLS
 FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
   This is more an unresolved issue than a to-do item.  More thought is needed.
 
-  Normally we rely on exit() to free memory, close files, and unmap segments
+  Normally we rely on exit() to free memory, close files and unmap segments
   for us.  This makes most calls to free(), close(), and unmap() optional in
   busybox applets that don't intend to run for very long, and optional stuff
   can be omitted to save size.
@@ -265,7 +251,6 @@ FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
   For right now, exit() handles it just fine.
 
 
-
 Minor stuff:
   watchdog.c could autodetect the timer duration via:
     if(!ioctl (fd, WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT, &tmo)) timer_duration = 1 + (tmo / 2);
@@ -287,6 +272,7 @@ Minor stuff:
 ---
   in_ether duplicated in network/{interface,ifconfig}.c
 ---
+  unify progress_meter. wget, flash_eraseall, pipe_progress, fbsplash, setfiles.
 
 
 Code cleanup:
@@ -296,3 +282,39 @@ Replace deprecated functions.
 ---
 vdprintf() -> similar sized functionality
 ---
+
+(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....