needed or wanted in busybox (or else I'd have to link to libcrypt).
* Networking apps are probably going to be split out some time soon into a
- separate package (named perhaps tiny-netkit?). This currently includes
- hostid, hostname, mnc, and ping.
-
+ separate package (named perhaps netkit-tiny?). This would remove the
+ following items from BusyBox: hostid, hostname, nc, nslookup, telnet,
+ and ping. nfs mounting and syslogd (when it supports network logging)
+ will remain in BusyBox.
-Erik
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-Bugs that need fixing as of Mon May 8 17:22:06 MDT 2000
-
- - zcat option parsing broke (maybe replace zcat binary with a shell script?)
- - cp -fa doesn't work (-a option parsing probably overrides everything)
- - 'grep foo$ file' doesn't work
- - 'grep *foo file' segfaults
- - ps dirent race bug (need to stat the file before attempting chdir)
-
-MKW
-
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-
* Make insmod actually work
* dnsdomainname
* traceroute/netstat
* rdate
* hwclock
* stty
-* cut
* expr
* wget (or whatever I call it)
* tftp
* ftp
* group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n)
-
-
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-
-Add a compile option to turn off all the compiled in help
-and usage information. Some folks don't need or want it...
+* 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.
- [andersen@slag busybox]$ grep -l getopt *.[ch]
- dmesg.c
- gunzip.c
- hostname.c
- mkfs_minix.c
- printf.c
- sfdisk.c
-
- This includes the symbols:
- getopt_long
- optarg
- opterr
- optind
-
-To be replaced with a non-getopt parser.
-
- [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'
and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller...
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-
-busybox.defs.h is too big and hard to follow.
-
-Perhaps I need to add a better build system (like the Linux kernel?)
-
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-
-Feature request:
-
-/bin/busybox --install -s which makes all links to commands that it
- can support (an optionnal -s should be used for symbolic links instead
- of hard links).
-
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-
-
-> Have you ever thought of doig network logging in busybox syslogd ? It
-> would quite make sense on embedded systems... :)
-
-So far I had not considered it. Basically, you wish to have
-messages from the embedded box logged to a remote network
-syslog box, right? I can see that this would be useful.
-I'll add this to the TODO list,
-
-
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+An interesting email listing some apps that use /proc. BusyBox
+tries to avoid /proc as mush as is possible, so this stuff is
+interesting (to me at least):
+
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:23:12 +0000 (GMT)
From: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX>
projects / oweals / busybox.git / blobdiff