between your work and theirs. But otherwise, all of these are fair game.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>:
+ Add BB_NOMMU to platform.h and migrate __uClinux__ tests to that.
+ #if defined __UCLIBC__ && !defined __ARCH_USE_MMU__
Add a libbb/platform.c
Implement fdprintf() for platforms that haven't got one.
Implement bb_realpath() that can handle NULL on non-glibc.
bzip2
Compression-side support.
init
- General cleanup.
+ General cleanup (should use ENABLE_FEATURE_INIT_SYSLOG and ENABLE_FEATURE_INIT_DEBUG).
+ depmod
+ busybox lacks a way to update module deps when running from firmware without the
+ use of the depmod.pl (perl is to bloated for most embedded setups) and or orig
+ modutils. The orig depmod is rather pointless to have to add to a firmware image
+ in when we already have a insmod/rmmod and friends.
Unify base64 handling.
There's base64 encoding and decoding going on in:
networking/wget.c:base64enc()
initramfs
Busybox should have a sample initramfs build script. This depends on
bbsh, mdev, and switch_root.
+ mkdep
+ Write a mkdep that doesn't segfault if there's a directory it doesn't
+ have permission to read, isn't based on manually editing the output of
+ lexx and yacc, doesn't make such a mess under include/config, etc.
+ Group globals into unions of structures.
+ Go through and turn all the global and static variables into structures,
+ and have all those structures be in a big union shared between processes,
+ so busybox uses less bss. (This is a big win on nommu machines.) See
+ sed.c and mdev.c for examples.
+ Go through bugs.busybox.net and close out all of that somehow.
+ This one's open to everybody, but I'll wind up doing it...
Bernhard Fischer <rep.nop@anon.at>:
Make sure we handle empty files properly:
From the patch man page:
- you can remove a file by sending out a context diff that compares
- the file to be deleted with an empty file dated the Epoch. The
- file will be removed unless patch is conforming to POSIX and the
- -E or --remove-empty-files option is not given.
+ you can remove a file by sending out a context diff that compares
+ the file to be deleted with an empty file dated the Epoch. The
+ file will be removed unless patch is conforming to POSIX and the
+ -E or --remove-empty-files option is not given.
---
patch
Should have simple fuzz factor support to apply patches at an offset which
allocation on the stack or the heap. Unfortunately, we're not using it much.
We need to audit our memory allocations and turn a lot of malloc/free calls
into RESERVE_CONFIG_BUFFER/RELEASE_CONFIG_BUFFER.
- For a start, see e.g. make CFLAGS_EXTRA=-Wlarger-than-64
+ For a start, see e.g. make EXTRA_CFLAGS=-Wlarger-than-64
And while we're at it, many of the CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP #ifdefs will be
optimized out by the compiler in the stack allocation case (since there's no
if(!ioctl (fd, WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT, &tmo)) timer_duration = 1 + (tmo / 2);
Unfortunately, that needs linux/watchdog.h and that contains unfiltered
kernel types on some distros, which breaks the build.
+---
+ use bb_error_msg where appropriate: See
+ egrep "(printf.*\([[:space:]]*(stderr|2)|[^_]write.*\([[:space:]]*(stderr|2))"
+---
+ use bb_perror_msg where appropriate: See
+ egrep "[^_]perror"
+---
+ Remove superfluous fmt occurances: e.g.
+ fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s not found\n", "unalias", *argptr);
+ -> fprintf(stderr, "unalias: %s not found\n", *argptr);
+---
+ possible code duplication ingroup() and is_a_group_member()
+---
+ unify itoa: netstat.c, hush.c, lash.c, msh.c
+ Put one single, robust version into e.g. safe_strtol.c
+---
+ Move __get_hz() to a better place and (re)use it in route.c, ash.c, msh.c
+---
Code cleanup: