X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=78f48fc014e3a200bfb11aba3334b01c24a25693;hb=7b1c5aacb0964e1b58a245cf7336cbfc4245de64;hp=9e51e92922c725fc13156d111049fd2a4416f176;hpb=5df6d9f7777c0272365845e97ed836f61965a375;p=oweals%2Fbusybox.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 9e51e9292..78f48fc01 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 +117,20 @@ 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! + Add chrt applet. Please CC Bernhard if you suggest a patch. As yet unclaimed: @@ -135,10 +142,10 @@ diff Make sure we handle empty files properly: From the patch man page: -   you can remove a file by sending out a context diff that compares -   the file to be deleted with an empty file dated the Epoch.  The -   file will be removed unless patch is conforming to POSIX and the -   -E or --remove-empty-files option is not given. + you can remove a file by sending out a context diff that compares + the file to be deleted with an empty file dated the Epoch. The + file will be removed unless patch is conforming to POSIX and the + -E or --remove-empty-files option is not given. --- patch Should have simple fuzz factor support to apply patches at an offset which @@ -157,9 +164,15 @@ 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 Architectural issues: @@ -255,7 +268,7 @@ 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. @@ -288,8 +301,7 @@ Minor stuff: --- 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 --- @@ -303,4 +315,3 @@ sigblock(), siggetmask(), sigsetmask(), sigmask() -> sigprocmask et al --- vdprintf() -> similar sized functionality --- -