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.
6 * login/sulogin/passwd/getty/etc are part of tinylogin, and so are not
7 needed or wanted in busybox (or else I'd have to link to libcrypt).
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
11 to happen. False alarm. Sorry about the confusion.
13 * Add ^L clear to shell
19 Possible apps to include some time:
22 * group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n)
23 * login/sulogin/passwd/etc are part of tinylogin. These are
24 being merged into busybox as time allows.
28 With sysvinit, reboot, poweroff and halt all used a named pipe,
29 /dev/initctl, to communicate with the init process. Busybox
30 currently uses signals to communicate with init. This makes
31 busybox incompatible with sysvinit. We should probably use
32 a named pipe as well so we can be compatible.
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38 rm -f busybox && make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | \
39 sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq
41 reveals the list of all external (i.e., libc) things that BusyBox depends on.
42 It would be a very nice thing to reduce this list to an absolute minimum, to
43 reduce the footprint of busybox, especially when staticly linking with
44 libraries such as uClibc.
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48 Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox'
49 and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller...
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53 du.c probably ought to have an -x switch like GNU du does...
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57 xargs could use a -l option
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61 libbb/unzip.c and archival/gzip.c have common constant static arrays and
62 code for initializing the CRC array. Both use CRC-32 and could use
63 common code for CRC calculation. Within archival/gzip.c, the CRC
64 array should be malloc-ed as it is in libbb/unzip.c .