| Eric Andersen | b186d98 | 1999-12-03 09:19:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | TODO list for busybox in no particular order. Just because something |
| 2 | is listed here doesn't mean that it is going to be added to busybox, |
| 3 | or that doing so is even a good idea. It just means that I _might_ get |
| 4 | around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know. |
| Eric Andersen | 394f764 | 1999-11-23 21:38:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | |
| Erik Andersen | 1c5b258 | 1999-12-16 20:59:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | * login/sulogin/passwd/getty/etc are part of tinylogin, and so are not |
| Erik Andersen | 94f5e0b | 2000-05-01 19:10:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | needed or wanted in busybox (or else I'd have to link to libcrypt). |
| Erik Andersen | 1c5b258 | 1999-12-16 20:59:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | |
| Eric Andersen | c5cd470 | 2001-01-24 18:47:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | * We _were_ going to split networking apps into a new package called |
| 10 | netkit-tiny. Per discussions on the mailing list, this isn't going |
| Eric Andersen | 8ec10a9 | 2001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | to happen. False alarm. Sorry about the confusion. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | * The busybox shell, lash, is really too weak for serious use, although it is |
| 14 | possible to run simple systems with it. BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have |
| 15 | a new shell, updated to understand full Bourne grammer. Well, that simply |
| 16 | didn't happen in time for the release. A rewrite is in progress that will |
| 17 | result in a new shell that understands the full Bourne grammar. This new |
| 18 | shell is being championed by Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov>, and |
| 19 | could use your help. Please see the work in progress at |
| 20 | http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html |
| Erik Andersen | 3163821 | 2000-01-15 22:28:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | |
| Eric Andersen | b186d98 | 1999-12-03 09:19:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | -Erik |
| 23 | |
| 24 | ----------- |
| Eric Andersen | befda6e | 1999-11-25 08:06:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | |
| Eric Andersen | 235f66d | 2000-12-13 18:07:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | Possible apps to include some time: |
| 27 | |
| Eric Andersen | b186d98 | 1999-12-03 09:19:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | * hwclock |
| Mark Whitley | 0a027e6 | 2000-05-08 23:25:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | * group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n) |
| Erik Andersen | fac10d7 | 2000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | |
| Eric Andersen | 98e599c | 2001-02-14 18:47:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | ----------- |
| 32 | |
| 33 | Write a fixup_globals function to do just that right before calling |
| 34 | non-forking applets. Or, just always fork... |
| 35 | |
| Erik Andersen | e272915 | 2000-02-18 21:34:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | ----------------------- |
| 37 | |
| Eric Andersen | 98e599c | 2001-02-14 18:47:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | Run the following: |
| Erik Andersen | f378fce | 2000-05-01 19:27:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | |
| Erik Andersen | 12d1b37 | 2000-05-01 19:50:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 40 | rm -f busybox && make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | \ |
| 41 | sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq |
| Erik Andersen | f378fce | 2000-05-01 19:27:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | |
| 43 | reveals the list of all external (i.e. libc) things that BusyBox depends on. |
| Eric Andersen | 235f66d | 2000-12-13 18:07:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | It would be a very nice thing to reduce this list to an absolute minimum, to |
| Eric Andersen | c5cd470 | 2001-01-24 18:47:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | reduce the footprint of busybox, especially when staticly linking with |
| 46 | libraries such as uClibc. |
| Erik Andersen | f378fce | 2000-05-01 19:27:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | |
| Eric Andersen | 235f66d | 2000-12-13 18:07:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | ----------------------- |
| 49 | |
| Erik Andersen | 7c4b2f3 | 2000-02-29 21:49:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox' |
| 51 | and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller... |
| 52 | |
| Erik Andersen | 7c4b2f3 | 2000-02-29 21:49:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | ----------------------- |
| 54 | |
| Eric Andersen | caffb6e | 2000-09-25 21:28:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 55 | du.c probably ought to have an -x switch like GNU du does... |
| Erik Andersen | 029011b | 2000-03-04 21:19:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 56 | |
| Erik Andersen | 298854f | 2000-03-23 01:09:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |