X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=325fe6c15c54ae62276445b1f6f1b8636f47ba3e;hb=8a9b2c6448e32f16e4b65dbd4927d9108c007acc;hp=bcba2948c5fdb04292a3f4b9c0253c5a87a9f8b5;hpb=e272915e1ffd6978ef3555ce4ae1798a9fbcee56;p=oweals%2Fbusybox.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index bcba2948c..325fe6c15 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -4,104 +4,54 @@ 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. * 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 in libcrypt). + needed or wanted in busybox (or else I'd have to link to libcrypt). -* Networking apps are probably going to be split out some time soon into a - separate package (named perhaps tiny-netkit?). This currently includes - hostid, hostname, mnc, and ping. +* 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 , and + could use your help. Please see the work in progress at + http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html -Erik ----------- -* Allow tar to create archives with sockets, devices, and other special files -* Make insmod actually work -* dnsdomainname -* traceroute/netstat -* rdate -* hwclock -* killall -* stty -* tr -* cut -* expr (maybe?) (ash builtin?) - - - ------------------------ - - -busybox.defs.h is too big and hard to follow. - -I either need to add a better build system (like the Linux kernel?) -or I need to split up busybox.defs.h into coherent chunks (i.e. -busybox.defs.h just has a bunch of: - -#include "fileutils.h" -#include "shellutils.h" - -which would then have smaller sets of #defines... -Hmm. Needs to be carefully thought out. - ------------------------ +Possible apps to include some time: +* hwclock +* group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n) +----------- -Some known bugs, todo items, etc... - ------------------------ - - -[andersen@slag busybox]$ ./busybox du /bin -6213 /bin -[andersen@slag busybox]$ du /bin -2971 /bin -[andersen@slag busybox]$ du --block-size=512 /bin -5943 /bin +Write a fixup_globals function to do just that right before calling +non-forking applets. Or, just always fork... ----------------------- --rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 4398 2000-01-06 21:55 uniq.c --rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 1568 1999-10-20 18:08 update.c --rw-r----- 0/1000 1168 2000-01-29 21:03 update.o --rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 22820 2000-01-05 11:36 utility.c --rw-r----- 0/1000 7372 2000-01-29 21:03 utility.o -tar: Skipping to next file header -tar: Skipping to next file header -tar: Archive - EOF not on block boundary -tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now +Run the following: + rm -f busybox && make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | \ + sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq -#1 You are storing by id instead of name like normal tar. Did you realize this? -(or am I missing some compile option? )ctar did not do this, and I don't think -it's a good idea for LRP. - -#2 -ctar did not produce the EOF error like your tar does. I believe you need to -pad the end of the archive with at least 2 tarsized (512byte) blocks. (I -think???) - -#3 -There is no exclude file(s) option to tar. LRP's packaging system can not -function without this. Will you have the time to add this soon? - +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. ----------------------- - -/bin/busybox --install -s which makes all links to commands that it - can support (an optionnal -s should be used for symbolic links instead - of hard links). +Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox' +and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller... ----------------------- -cd /mnt -mkdir BACKUP -mv * BACKUP - -Today, "mv" behaved as a cp -a and my disk becomed full. It does not -work properly either when renaming a directory into something else -(it produces a lot of disk activity when doing this). - + du.c probably ought to have an -x switch like GNU du does... +------------------------------------------------------------------