-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
-* group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n)
-* login/sulogin/passwd/etc are part of tinylogin. These are
- being merged into busybox as time allows.
-
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-
-With sysvinit, reboot, poweroff and halt all used a named pipe,
-/dev/initctl, to communicate with the init process. Busybox
-currently uses signals to communicate with init. This makes
-busybox incompatible with sysvinit. We should probably use
-a named pipe as well so we can be compatible.
-
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-
-Run 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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-
-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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-
-xargs could use a -l option
-
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-
-libbb/unzip.c and archival/gzip.c have common constant static arrays and
-code for initializing the CRC array. Both use CRC-32 and could use
-common code for CRC calculation. Within archival/gzip.c, the CRC
-array should be malloc-ed as it is in libbb/unzip.c .
+tr doesnt support [:blank:], [:digit:] or other predefined classes, [=equiv=]
+support is also missing.
+----
+
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