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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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* Networking apps are going to be split out to a new package called netkit-tiny
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before the next release of Busybox. This will remove the following items
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from BusyBox: hostid, hostname, nc, nslookup, telnet, and ping. nfs
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mounting and syslogd (network logging) will remain in BusyBox.
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-Erik
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Possible apps to include some time:
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* hwclock
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* stty
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* group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n)
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The Busybox lash shell needs to be taught Bourne shell grammer. This
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is planned for the next release of Busybox. Look out ash, we are coming
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for you...
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Running 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 when staticly linking with libraries such as
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uClibc.
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Currently, busybox bypasses libc NSS. Some folks might want that,
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so perhaps adding in the option to choose whether to go to libc for
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things like getpwnam() or whether to use the busybox version might
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be nice.
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Most wanted list:
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[andersen@slag busybox]$ grep -l getgroups *.[ch]
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test.c
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Policy violation. getgroups uses libc nss, which is unlikely
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to be present in an embedded system.
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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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