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@@ -6,10 +6,18 @@ around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know.
 * 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).
 
-* Networking apps are going to be split out to a new package called netkit-tiny
-    before the next release of Busybox.  This will remove the following items
-    from BusyBox: hostid, hostname, nc, nslookup, telnet, and ping.  nfs
-    mounting and syslogd (network logging) will remain in BusyBox.
+* 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.  
+
+* The busybox shell, lash, is really too weak for serious use, although it is
+    possible to run simple systems with it.  BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have
+    a new shell, updated to understand full Bourne grammer.  Well, that simply
+    didn't happen in time for the release.  A rewrite is in progress that will
+    result in a new shell that understands the full Bourne grammar.  This new
+    shell is being championed by Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov>, and
+    could use your help.  Please see the work in progress at
+	http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html
 
  -Erik
 
@@ -18,43 +26,24 @@ around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know.
 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...
+Write a fixup_globals function to do just that right before calling
+non-forking applets.  Or, just always fork...
 
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-Running the following:
+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 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.
+reduce the footprint of busybox, especially when staticly linking with
+libraries such as uClibc.
 
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