For a quick listing of "needs work" spots in the sources, cd into the Busybox
directory and run the following:
- for i in TODO FIXME XXX; do grep $i *.[ch]; done
+ for i in TODO FIXME XXX; do find -name '*.[ch]'|xargs grep $i; done
This will show all of the trouble spots or 'questionable' code. Pick a spot,
any spot, these are all invitations for you to contribute.
These are dirty jobs, but somebody's gotta do 'em.
- - Converting applets to use getopt() for option processing. Type 'grep -L
- getopt *.c' to get a listing of the applets that currently don't use
- getopt. If a .c file processes no options, it should have a line that
+ - Converting applets to use getopt() for option processing. Type 'find -name
+ '*.c'|grep -L getopt' to get a listing of the applets that currently don't
+ use getopt. If a .c file processes no options, it should have a line that
reads: /* no options, no getopt */ somewhere in the file.
- Replace any "naked" calls to malloc, calloc, realloc, str[n]dup, fopen with
- the x* equivalents found in utility.c.
+ the x* equivalents found in libbb/xfuncs.c.
- Security audits:
- http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/forums/secprog/secure-programming.html
+ http://www.securityfocus.com/popups/forums/secprog/intro.shtml
- Synthetic code removal: http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/06/commify.html - This
is very Perl-specific, but the advice given in here applies equally well to
- "Ten Commandments" compliance: (this is a "maybe", certainly not as
important as any of the previous items.)
- http://web.onetelnet.ch/~twolf/tw/c/ten_commandments.html
+ http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ten-commandments.html
Other useful links:
projects / platform / upstream / busybox.git / commitdiff