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TODO list for busybox in no particular order. Just because something
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is listed here doesn't mean that it is going to be added to busybox,
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or that doing so is even a good idea. It just means that I _might_ get
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around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know.
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* login/sulogin/passwd/getty/etc are part of tinylogin, and so are not
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needed or wanted in busybox (or else I'd have to link to libcrypt).
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* We _were_ going to split networking apps into a new package called
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netkit-tiny. Per discussions on the mailing list, this isn't going
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to happen. False alarm. Sorry about the confusion.
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* The busybox shell, lash, is really too weak for serious use, although it is
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possible to run many simple systems with it. BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to
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have a new shell, updated to understand full Bourne grammer. Well, that
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simply didn't happen in time for the release. A rewrite is in progress
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that will result in a new shell that understands the full Bourne grammar.
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This new shell is being championed by Larry Doolittle
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<ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov>, and could use your help. Please see the work
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in progress at http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html and help
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us out.
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-Erik
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Possible apps to include some time:
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* hwclock
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* group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n)
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Write a fixup_globals function to do just that right before calling
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non-forking applets. Or, just always fork in the shell...
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Run the following:
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rm -f busybox && make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | \
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sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq
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reveals the list of all external (i.e. libc) things that BusyBox depends on.
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It would be a very nice thing to reduce this list to an absolute minimum, to
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reduce the footprint of busybox, especially when staticly linking with
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libraries such as uClibc.
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Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox'
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and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller...
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du.c probably ought to have an -x switch like GNU du does...
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