X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=35bc11a24de3c17eec30d10de4812f9898424b52;hb=340aa1cb3f1a8f5fda7c6782b514499a0d397c58;hp=325fe6c15c54ae62276445b1f6f1b8636f47ba3e;hpb=98e599ca063bbba13e0806d54f8caa9b0d10ba56;p=oweals%2Fbusybox.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 325fe6c15..35bc11a24 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,23 +1,8 @@ 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). - -* 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 +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 @@ -25,13 +10,15 @@ around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know. Possible apps to include some time: -* hwclock * group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n) ----------- -Write a fixup_globals function to do just that right before calling -non-forking applets. Or, just always fork... +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. ----------------------- @@ -40,7 +27,7 @@ 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. +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. @@ -52,6 +39,11 @@ and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller... ----------------------- - du.c probably ought to have an -x switch like GNU du does... +xargs could use a -l option ------------------------------------------------------------------ + +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 .