-TODO list for busybox in no particular order. Just because something
-is listed here doesn't mean that it is going to be added to busybox,
-or that doing so is even a good idea. It just means that I _might_ get
-around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know.
+Busybox TODO
-* login/sulogin/passwd/getty/etc are part of tinylogin, and so are not
- needed or wanted in busybox (or else I'd have to link to libcrypt).
+Stuff that needs to be done
-* We _were_ going to split networking apps into a new package called
- netkit-tiny. Per discussions on the mailing list, this isn't going
- to happen. False alarm. Sorry about the confusion.
+----
+tr - missing SuS3 features in busybox 1.0pre10
- -Erik
-
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-
-Possible apps to include some time:
-
-* hwclock
-* stty
-* group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n)
-
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-
-The Busybox lash shell needs to be taught Bourne shell grammer. This
-is planned for the next release of Busybox. Look out ash, we are coming
-for you...
-
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-
-Running the following:
-
- rm -f busybox && make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | \
- sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq
-
-reveals the list of all external (i.e. libc) things that BusyBox depends on.
-It would be a very nice thing to reduce this list to an absolute minimum, to
-reduce the footprint of busybox, especially when staticly linking with
-libraries such as uClibc.
-
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-
-Currently, busybox bypasses libc NSS. Some folks might want that,
-so perhaps adding in the option to choose whether to go to libc for
-things like getpwnam() or whether to use the busybox version might
-be nice.
-
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-
-Most wanted list:
-
- [andersen@slag busybox]$ grep -l getgroups *.[ch]
- test.c
-
-Policy violation. getgroups uses libc nss, which is unlikely
-to be present in an embedded system.
-
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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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-
- du.c probably ought to have an -x switch like GNU du does...
-
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+tr doesnt support [:blank:], [:digit:] or other predefined classes, [=equiv=]
+support is also missing.
+----
+
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