X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=5fe7f0260d55f08a91108072b7b605ba92f214d9;hb=7e8a53a33576b8ac6b5067ff88447936ad9d422f;hp=c603a16517780a1bc5558bcff1038980f2375f49;hpb=0b7dfb5ae73bcc29f1d5dfdb1b37c5b1d34b5904;p=oweals%2Fbusybox.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index c603a1651..5fe7f0260 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Rob Landley : depmod busybox lacks a way to update module deps when running from firmware without the use of the depmod.pl (perl is to bloated for most embedded setups) and or orig - modutils. The orig depmod is rather pointless to have to add to a firmware image + modutils. The orig depmod is rather pointless to have to add to a firmware image in when we already have a insmod/rmmod and friends. Unify base64 handling. There's base64 encoding and decoding going on in: @@ -117,13 +117,19 @@ Rob Landley : This one's open to everybody, but I'll wind up doing it... -Bernhard Fischer : - Makefile stuff: - make -j is broken, -j1 is forced atm +Bernhard Fischer suggests to look at these: New debug options: -Wlarger-than-127 + Cleanup any big users + -Wunused-parameter + Facilitate applet PROTOTYPES to provide means for having applets that + do a) not take any arguments b) need only one of argc or argv c) need + both argc and argv. All of these three options should go for the most + feature complete denominator. Collate BUFSIZ IOBUF_SIZE MY_BUF_SIZE PIPE_PROGRESS_SIZE BUFSIZE PIPESIZE - Use bb_common_bufsiz1? + make bb_common_bufsiz1 configurable, size wise. + make pipesize configurable, size wise. + Use bb_common_bufsiz1 throughout applets! As yet unclaimed: @@ -147,6 +153,10 @@ patch And while we're at it, a new patch filename quoting format is apparently coming soon: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=112927316408690&w=2 --- +ps / top + Add support for both RSS and VSIZE rather than just one or the other. + Or make it a build option. +--- man It would be nice to have a man command. Not one that handles troff or anything, just one that can handle preformatted ascii man pages, possibly @@ -158,8 +168,19 @@ man ar Write support? --- -crond - turn FEATURE_DEBUG_OPT into ENABLE_FEATURE_CROND_DEBUG_OPT +stty / catv + stty's visible() function and catv's guts are identical. Merge them into + an appropriate libbb function. +--- +struct suffix_mult + Several duplicate users of: grep -r "1024\*1024" * -B2 -A1 + Merge to a single size_suffixes[] in libbb. + Users: head tail od_bloaty hexdump and (partially as it wouldn't hurt) svlogd +--- +tail + ./busybox tail -f foo.c~ TODO + should not print fmt=header_fmt for subsequent date >> TODO; i.e. only + fmt+ if another (not the current) file did change Architectural issues: @@ -255,7 +276,7 @@ FEATURE_CLEAN_UP jumps out of the normal flow control and bypasses any cleanup code we put at the end of our applets. - It's possible to add hooks to libbb functions like xmalloc() and bb_xopen() + It's possible to add hooks to libbb functions like xmalloc() and xopen() to add their entries to a linked list, which could be traversed and freed/closed automatically. (This would need to be able to free just the entries after a checkpoint to be usable for a forkless standalone shell. @@ -287,9 +308,6 @@ Minor stuff: -> fprintf(stderr, "unalias: %s not found\n", *argptr); --- possible code duplication ingroup() and is_a_group_member() ---- - unify itoa: netstat.c, hush.c, lash.c, msh.c - Put one single, robust version into e.g. safe_strtol.c --- Move __get_hz() to a better place and (re)use it in route.c, ash.c, msh.c --- @@ -305,4 +323,3 @@ sigblock(), siggetmask(), sigsetmask(), sigmask() -> sigprocmask et al --- vdprintf() -> similar sized functionality --- -