-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
-* The default busybox shell, lash, is really too weak for serious use,
- although it is possible to run many simple systems with it. BusyBox
- 0.52 now contains a rewritten shell, hush, which understands most
- Bourne grammar, with only about a 4 Kbyte binary size penalty. You can
- engage hush at pre-compile time by "ln -sf hush.c sh.c; touch hush.c".
- Hush is young, and has plenty of bugs to shake out, so think twice before
- using it for production systems. We welcome bug reports and patches.
-
- -Erik
-
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-
-Possible apps to include some time:
-
-* hwclock
-* group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n)
-
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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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+tr doesnt support [:blank:], [:digit:] or other predefined classes, [=equiv=]
+support is also missing.
+----
+