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