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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 default busybox shell, lash, is really too weak for serious use,
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although it is possible to run many simple systems with it. BusyBox
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0.52 now contains a rewritten shell, hush, which understands most
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Bourne grammar, with only about a 4 Kbyte binary size penalty. You can
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engage hush at pre-compile time by "ln -sf hush.c sh.c; touch hush.c".
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Hush is young, and has plenty of bugs to shake out, so think twice before
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using it for production systems. We welcome bug reports and patches.
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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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With sysvinit, reboot, poweroff and halt all used a named pipe,
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/dev/initctl, to communicate with the init process. Busybox
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currently uses signals to communicate with init. This makes
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busybox incompatible with sysvinit. We should probably use
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a named pipe as well so we can be compatible.
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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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xargs could use a -l option
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