X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=f28928626d1e39cb00cec242973c5785c96afb89;hb=23b5146247ee07095730cfd3a9aa852db8bcfa9b;hp=e05558b04d14fd2695e2747c374d89509f7d2dd1;hpb=7c4b2f3fe5cb6b9a5c6bd089c18279c5ce29dc21;p=oweals%2Fbusybox.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index e05558b04..f28928626 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -3,116 +3,50 @@ 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 in 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. - +* 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. -Erik ----------- -* Allow tar to create archives with sockets, devices, and other special files -* Make insmod actually work -* dnsdomainname -* traceroute/netstat -* rdate -* hwclock -* killall -* stty -* tr -* cut -* expr (maybe?) (ash builtin?) - - - ------------------------ - -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. +Possible apps to include some time: -I either need to add a better build system (like the Linux kernel?) -or I need to split up busybox.defs.h into coherent chunks (i.e. -busybox.defs.h just has a bunch of: - -#include "fileutils.h" -#include "shellutils.h" - -which would then have smaller sets of #defines... -Hmm. Needs to be carefully thought out. - ------------------------ +* group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n) +----------- - -Some known bugs, todo items, etc... - ------------------------ - - --rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 4398 2000-01-06 21:55 uniq.c --rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 1568 1999-10-20 18:08 update.c --rw-r----- 0/1000 1168 2000-01-29 21:03 update.o --rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 22820 2000-01-05 11:36 utility.c --rw-r----- 0/1000 7372 2000-01-29 21:03 utility.o -tar: Skipping to next file header -tar: Skipping to next file header -tar: Archive - EOF not on block boundary -tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now - - -#1 You are storing by id instead of name like normal tar. Did you realize this? -(or am I missing some compile option? )ctar did not do this, and I don't think -it's a good idea for LRP. - -#2 -ctar did not produce the EOF error like your tar does. I believe you need to -pad the end of the archive with at least 2 tarsized (512byte) blocks. (I -think???) - -#3 -There is no exclude file(s) option to tar. LRP's packaging system can not -function without this. Will you have the time to add this soon? - +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. ----------------------- -cd /mnt -mkdir BACKUP -mv * BACKUP +Run the following: -Today, "mv" behaved as a cp -a and my disk becomed full. It does not -work properly either when renaming a directory into something else -(it produces a lot of disk activity when doing this). + 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. +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. ----------------------- - -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). - +Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox' +and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller... ----------------------- +xargs could use a -l option -> 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, +------------------------------------------------------------------ +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 .