- Don't point to obsolete patches but the current fixes for the stable releases

[oweals/busybox.git] / TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 79cea71b57658a5bda51309250172e6c262c3ae3..f68c9de73e01608679fd765be0c21364c1def69b 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -22,12 +22,9 @@ Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>:
     The command shell situation is a big mess.  We have three or four different
     shells that don't really share any code, and the "standalone shell" doesn't
     work all that well (especially not in a chroot environment), due to apps not
-    being reentrant.  I'm writing a new shell (bbsh) to unify the various
-    shells and configurably add the minimal set of bash features people
-    actually use.  The hardest part is it has to configure down as small as
-    lash while providing lash's features.  The rest is easy in comparison.
-  bzip2
-    Compression-side support.
+    being reentrant.
+    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).
   depmod
@@ -35,13 +32,6 @@ Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>:
     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()
-      coreutils/uudecode.c:read_base64()
-      coreutils/uuencode.c:tbl_base64[]
-      networking/httpd.c:decodeBase64()
-    And probably elsewhere.  That needs to be unified into libbb functions.
   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
@@ -130,7 +120,6 @@ Bernhard Fischer <busybox@busybox.net> suggests to look at these:
     make bb_common_bufsiz1 configurable, size wise.
     make pipesize configurable, size wise.
     Use bb_common_bufsiz1 throughout applets!
-  Add chrt applet. Please CC Bernhard if you suggest a patch.
 
 As yet unclaimed:
 
@@ -168,15 +157,20 @@ man
 ---
 ar
   Write support?
-----
+---
 stty / catv
   stty's visible() function and catv's guts are identical. Merge them into
   an appropriate libbb function.
-----
+---
 struct suffix_mult
   Several duplicate users of: grep -r "1024\*1024" * -B2 -A1
   Merge to a single size_suffixes[] in libbb.
   Users: head tail od_bloaty hexdump and (partially as it wouldn't hurt) svlogd
+---
+tail
+  ./busybox tail -f foo.c~ TODO
+  should not print fmt=header_fmt for subsequent date >> TODO; i.e. only
+  fmt+ if another (not the current) file did change
 
 Architectural issues:
 
@@ -307,6 +301,9 @@ Minor stuff:
 ---
   Move __get_hz() to a better place and (re)use it in route.c, ash.c, msh.c
 ---
+  See grep -r strtod
+  Alot of duplication that wants cleanup.
+---
 
 
 Code cleanup: