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@@ -3,12 +3,14 @@ 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).
+* login/sulogin/passwd/etc are part of tinylogin.  We are in the
+    process of merging these applications into busybox, since the 
+    new build system allows us to add Libraries (i.e. libcrypt),
+    when certain applets are enabled.
 
 * 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.
+    to happen.  False alarm.  Sorry about the confusion.  
 
  -Erik
 
@@ -17,46 +19,32 @@ around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know.
 Possible apps to include some time:
 
 * hwclock
-* stty
 * group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n)
+* login/sulogin/passwd/etc are part of tinylogin.  These are 
+    being merged into busybox as time allows.
 
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+-----------
 
-The Busybox lash shell needs to be taught Bourne shell grammer.  This
-is planned for the next release of Busybox.  Look out ash, we are coming
-for you...
+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.
 
 -----------------------
 
-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.
+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.
 
 -----------------------
 
-Currently, busybox bypasses libc NSS.  Some folks might want that,
-so perhaps adding in the option to choose whether to go to libc for
-things like getpwnam() or whether to use the busybox version might 
-be nice.
-
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-
-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.
-
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-
 Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox'
 and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller...
 
@@ -64,4 +52,13 @@ 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
+
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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 .