X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=d34572311b4445bb7f23a9d094b3193a02ee262c;hb=34e1941c32cd9366d4ada22c3ab3e42b9c986a2b;hp=e6cb94d4b6173eb59d1c52acc89941e7ae837ebd;hpb=86ab8a32bd63b2f2a73bdcead8e2bb037589e175;p=oweals%2Fbusybox.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index e6cb94d4b..d34572311 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -16,36 +16,6 @@ around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know. ----------- -Bugs that need fixing: - - - 'grep foo$ file' doesn't work - - 'grep *foo file' segfaults - - ps dirent race bug (need to stat the file before attempting chdir) - - The following commands segfault: - chmod -R - chown -R - chgrp -R - cp -a -a - ln -s -s - rm -f - rm -f - - rm -- - - touch -c - - I believe that swaponoff may also be also broken (check it). - - It used to be that BusyBox tar would happily overwrite existing files on - an extraction. However, as of 0.42, BusyBox tar simply dies as soon as an - existing file is found. - - Make 'mount -a' work even when /proc isn't mounted (ugly bug). - - Make 'ln -s /tmp/file .' work the way GNU ln does (i.e. makes a link to - /tmp/file in the current directory, rather then trying and failing to create - a symlink named "." in the current working directory). - - implement 'ls -R'. - - "cp -a sourcedir/*" (note: no dest) - produces an odd error message about - the last file in the dir, rather than saying "missing destination file". - - ------------ - * Make insmod actually work * dnsdomainname * traceroute/netstat @@ -57,7 +27,8 @@ Bugs that need fixing: * tftp * ftp * group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n) - +* consider making a unified option parser (if it can be done + modular, small, etc.) ----------------------- @@ -81,49 +52,11 @@ Most wanted list: Policy violation. getgroups uses libc nss, which is unlikely to be present in an embedded system. -To be replaced with a busybox local glob routine: - - [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, - - ----------------------- @@ -136,6 +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