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+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,49 +1,36 @@
 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.
-
-* 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 probably going to be split out some time soon into a
-    separate package (named perhaps netkit-tiny?).  This would remove the
-    following items from BusyBox: hostid, hostname, nc, nslookup, telnet, and
-    ping.  nfs mounting and syslogd (network logging) will remain in BusyBox.
+or that doing so is even a good idea. It just means that we _might_ get
+around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please send them
+on in...
 
  -Erik
 
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-* dnsdomainname
-* traceroute/netstat
-* hwclock
-* stty
-* tftp
-* ftp
+Possible apps to include some time:
+
 * group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n)
 
+-----------
+
+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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-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, and
-then create a microLibc to provide these functions.  There is no good reason
-for GNU libc to be so big.  I'm sure it can be a lot better.
-
-(BTW, this is more informative if BB_FEATURE_NFSMOUNT is turned off...)
-
-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.
+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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@@ -52,6 +39,11 @@ 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...
+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 .