X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=d34572311b4445bb7f23a9d094b3193a02ee262c;hb=34e1941c32cd9366d4ada22c3ab3e42b9c986a2b;hp=5fe780f3914c45b100bb9b188fdf0992b9124b76;hpb=59b9e870243c56a9c5ec045a925e4e9b3f1f6c3c;p=oweals%2Fbusybox.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 5fe780f39..d34572311 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -7,42 +7,28 @@ around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know. needed or wanted in busybox (or else I'd have to link to libcrypt). * Networking apps are probably going to be split out some time soon into a - separate package (named perhaps tiny-netkit?). This currently includes - hostid, hostname, mnc, and ping. - + separate package (named perhaps netkit-tiny?). This would remove the + following items from BusyBox: hostid, hostname, nc, nslookup, telnet, + and ping. nfs mounting and syslogd (when it supports network logging) + will remain in BusyBox. -Erik ----------- -Bugs that need fixing as of Mon May 8 17:22:06 MDT 2000 - - - 'grep foo$ file' doesn't work - - 'grep *foo file' segfaults - - ps dirent race bug (need to stat the file before attempting chdir) - -MKW - ------------ - * Make insmod actually work * dnsdomainname * traceroute/netstat * rdate * hwclock * stty -* cut * expr * wget (or whatever I call it) * tftp * ftp * group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n) - - ------------------------ - -Add a compile option to turn off all the compiled in help -and usage information. Some folks don't need or want it... +* consider making a unified option parser (if it can be done + modular, small, etc.) ----------------------- @@ -66,63 +52,11 @@ Most wanted list: Policy violation. getgroups uses libc nss, which is unlikely to be present in an embedded system. - [andersen@slag busybox]$ grep -l getopt *.[ch] - dmesg.c - gunzip.c - hostname.c - mkfs_minix.c - printf.c - sfdisk.c - - This includes the symbols: - getopt_long - optarg - opterr - optind - -To be replaced with a non-getopt parser. - - [andersen@slag busybox]$ grep -l glob *.[ch] - gunzip.c - gzip.c - sh.c - tar.c - telnet.c - -Can check_wildcard_match() from utility.c do this job? - - ----------------------- Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox' and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller... ------------------------ - -busybox.defs.h is too big and hard to follow. - -Perhaps I need to add a better build system (like the Linux kernel?) - ------------------------ - -Feature request: - -/bin/busybox --install -s which makes all links to commands that it - can support (an optionnal -s should be used for symbolic links instead - of hard links). - ------------------------ - - -> Have you ever thought of doig network logging in busybox syslogd ? It -> would quite make sense on embedded systems... :) - -So far I had not considered it. Basically, you wish to have -messages from the embedded box logged to a remote network -syslog box, right? I can see that this would be useful. -I'll add this to the TODO list, - - ----------------------- @@ -135,6 +69,10 @@ I'll add this to the TODO list, ------------------------------------------------------------------ +An interesting email listing some apps that use /proc. BusyBox +tries to avoid /proc as mush as is possible, so this stuff is +interesting (to me at least): + Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:23:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Riley Williams