X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=7962b9ecfe4d7192c30fd10b8572ad280f0115d0;hb=a0782684fd5076fd2ad5ca4f611249da83182108;hp=3e0121b631950e66afe3cbd45da57ced799330d1;hpb=8ec10a9483f937743cba51124b30540c9613fca8;p=oweals%2Fbusybox.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 3e0121b63..7962b9ecf 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -3,22 +3,15 @@ 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. -* 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 - -Erik ----------- @@ -26,17 +19,26 @@ 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. + +----------- + +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. @@ -50,4 +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 + ------------------------------------------------------------------ + +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 .