| TODO list for busybox in no particular order. Just because something |
| 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). |
| |
| * 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 default busybox shell, lash, is really too weak for serious use, |
| although it is possible to run many simple systems with it. BusyBox |
| 0.52 now contains a rewritten shell, hush, which understands most |
| Bourne grammar, with only about a 4 Kbyte binary size penalty. You can |
| engage hush at pre-compile time by "ln -sf hush.c sh.c; touch hush.c". |
| Hush is young, and has plenty of bugs to shake out, so think twice before |
| using it for production systems. We welcome bug reports and patches. |
| |
| -Erik |
| |
| ----------- |
| |
| Possible apps to include some time: |
| |
| * hwclock |
| * group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n) |
| |
| ----------- |
| |
| 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. |
| |
| ----------------------- |
| |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| |
| ----------------------- |
| |
| Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox' |
| 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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