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| author | Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> | 2000-12-13 18:07:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> | 2000-12-13 18:07:38 +0000 |
| commit | 235f66dea39fb4eab6fbdba9ea1c7f9be1771250 (patch) | |
| tree | 79ad054969f5397afd4486a845d31442c2e41b3f /TODO | |
| parent | d0fa0a12f1ce40a9e0d73674ad2f5e4a294cdbb5 (diff) | |
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A few more updates
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| -rw-r--r-- | TODO | 35 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 12 deletions
| @@ -6,36 +6,47 @@ 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 | 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). | 7 | needed or wanted in busybox (or else I'd have to link to libcrypt). |
| 8 | 8 | ||
| 9 | * Networking apps are probably going to be split out some time soon into a | 9 | * Networking apps are going to be split out to a new package called netkit-tiny |
| 10 | separate package (named perhaps netkit-tiny?). This would remove the | 10 | before the next release of Busybox. This will remove the following items |
| 11 | following items from BusyBox: hostid, hostname, nc, nslookup, telnet, and | 11 | from BusyBox: hostid, hostname, nc, nslookup, telnet, and ping. nfs |
| 12 | ping. nfs mounting and syslogd (network logging) will remain in BusyBox. | 12 | mounting and syslogd (network logging) will remain in BusyBox. |
| 13 | 13 | ||
| 14 | -Erik | 14 | -Erik |
| 15 | 15 | ||
| 16 | ----------- | 16 | ----------- |
| 17 | 17 | ||
| 18 | * dnsdomainname | 18 | Possible apps to include some time: |
| 19 | * traceroute/netstat | 19 | |
| 20 | * hwclock | 20 | * hwclock |
| 21 | * stty | 21 | * stty |
| 22 | * tftp | ||
| 23 | * ftp | ||
| 24 | * group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n) | 22 | * group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n) |
| 25 | 23 | ||
| 26 | ----------------------- | 24 | ----------------------- |
| 27 | 25 | ||
| 26 | The Busybox lash shell needs to be taught Bourne shell grammer. This | ||
| 27 | is planned for the next release of Busybox. Look out ash, we are coming | ||
| 28 | for you... | ||
| 29 | |||
| 30 | ----------------------- | ||
| 31 | |||
| 28 | Running the following: | 32 | Running the following: |
| 29 | 33 | ||
| 30 | rm -f busybox && make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | \ | 34 | rm -f busybox && make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | \ |
| 31 | sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq | 35 | sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq |
| 32 | 36 | ||
| 33 | reveals the list of all external (i.e. libc) things that BusyBox depends on. | 37 | reveals the list of all external (i.e. libc) things that BusyBox depends on. |
| 34 | It would be a very nice thing to reduce this list to an absolute minimum, and | 38 | It would be a very nice thing to reduce this list to an absolute minimum, to |
| 35 | then create a microLibc to provide these functions. There is no good reason | 39 | reduce the footprint of busybox when staticly linking with libraries such as |
| 36 | for GNU libc to be so big. I'm sure it can be a lot better. | 40 | uClibc. |
| 37 | 41 | ||
| 38 | (BTW, this is more informative if BB_FEATURE_NFSMOUNT is turned off...) | 42 | ----------------------- |
| 43 | |||
| 44 | Currently, busybox bypasses libc NSS. Some folks might want that, | ||
| 45 | so perhaps adding in the option to choose whether to go to libc for | ||
| 46 | things like getpwnam() or whether to use the busybox version might | ||
| 47 | be nice. | ||
| 48 | |||
| 49 | ----------------------- | ||
| 39 | 50 | ||
| 40 | Most wanted list: | 51 | Most wanted list: |
| 41 | 52 | ||