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| author | Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> | 2000-06-21 22:44:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> | 2000-06-21 22:44:33 +0000 |
| commit | 45087b1010728ba90e78be16ae82af82f658976d (patch) | |
| tree | e13d41c8e271d652e3f04a86d4bcf50a588e94d5 /TODO | |
| parent | 766c0129754a81f7e3a94b7c798f8d6d26280120 (diff) | |
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More doc updates.
-Erik
Diffstat (limited to 'TODO')
| -rw-r--r-- | TODO | 59 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 22 deletions
| @@ -16,32 +16,58 @@ around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know. | |||
| 16 | 16 | ||
| 17 | ----------- | 17 | ----------- |
| 18 | 18 | ||
| 19 | Bugs that need fixing before the 0.44 release goes out the door: | 19 | Bugs that need fixing: |
| 20 | 20 | ||
| 21 | - "more" doesn't accept " " to scroll by one page when BB_FEATURE_USE_TERMIOS | 21 | - "more" doesn't accept " " to scroll by one page when BB_FEATURE_USE_TERMIOS |
| 22 | is not on. | 22 | is not on. |
| 23 | - doc / website updates to tell what the real mailing list is for busybox. | ||
| 24 | - fix 'cp' (or test suite script) so that it passes the test suite. | 23 | - fix 'cp' (or test suite script) so that it passes the test suite. |
| 25 | |||
| 26 | These could get done before the 0.44 release if we have time, but we won't | ||
| 27 | hold up the 0.44 release just because of these: | ||
| 28 | |||
| 29 | - ps dirent race bug (need to stat the file before attempting chdir) | 24 | - ps dirent race bug (need to stat the file before attempting chdir) |
| 30 | - Make 'ln -s /tmp/file .' work the way GNU ln does (i.e. makes a link to | 25 | - Make 'ln -s /tmp/file .' work the way GNU ln does (i.e. makes a link to |
| 31 | /tmp/file in the current directory, rather then trying and failing to create | 26 | /tmp/file in the current directory, rather then trying and failing to create |
| 32 | a symlink named "." in the current working directory). | 27 | a symlink named "." in the current working directory). |
| 33 | - Prune sfdisk | 28 | - Prune sfdisk |
| 34 | - Graft fdisk | 29 | - Graft fdisk instead |
| 35 | 30 | ||
| 36 | These will be deferred til after 0.44 is released. We will rework these to use | ||
| 37 | libc regex functions instead (as per the mailing list discussion): | ||
| 38 | 31 | ||
| 32 | We will rework these to use libc regex functions instead (as per the mailing | ||
| 33 | list discussion): | ||
| 39 | - 'grep foo$ file' doesn't work | 34 | - 'grep foo$ file' doesn't work |
| 40 | - 'grep *foo file' segfaults | 35 | - 'grep *foo file' segfaults |
| 41 | 36 | ||
| 42 | 37 | ||
| 43 | ----------- | 38 | ----------- |
| 44 | 39 | ||
| 40 | Linux 2.4.x kernels | ||
| 41 | |||
| 42 | BusyBox 0.45 currently will not work with the Linux 2.4.x kernels. | ||
| 43 | I know of the following problems: | ||
| 44 | |||
| 45 | 1) The sysinfo syscall has changed what it does (binary incompatable), breaking | ||
| 46 | init and free. | ||
| 47 | 2) BusyBox NFS support is broken with 2.4.x (needs to be adjusted for NFSv3 and | ||
| 48 | kernel header changes). | ||
| 49 | 3) mount,umount,and df are all broken by the "none" entries for fake filesystems | ||
| 50 | such as the shared mem one. Al Viro claims these will be disappearing soon... | ||
| 51 | |||
| 52 | I made a kernel patch that reverts the sysinfo changes | ||
| 53 | http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_0006_01/msg00619.html | ||
| 54 | |||
| 55 | and I have been fighting with Alan Cox to get these changes fixed in a binary | ||
| 56 | compatable way, but Alan has so far not been very receptive. I am planning on | ||
| 57 | appealing to Linus (when he gets back from vacation) and then going with | ||
| 58 | whatever he decides... | ||
| 59 | |||
| 60 | So my thought is, 2.4.x just isn't ready for BusyBox to target it, and even if | ||
| 61 | it was, BusyBox isn't ready yet either. Seems to me like this will not be | ||
| 62 | ready for a while, and we should just not worry about it yet. | ||
| 63 | |||
| 64 | As long as I have BB_FEATURE_NFSMOUNT turned off, everything compiles cleanly | ||
| 65 | for me with linux2.4.0test1-ac22-riel (i.e. I don't see the freeramdisk.c | ||
| 66 | problem you reported). I use Debian potato (gcc 2.95.2, GNU libc 2.1.3). | ||
| 67 | Of course, as noted above, compiling != working. | ||
| 68 | |||
| 69 | ----------- | ||
| 70 | |||
| 45 | * Make insmod actually work | 71 | * Make insmod actually work |
| 46 | * dnsdomainname | 72 | * dnsdomainname |
| 47 | * traceroute/netstat | 73 | * traceroute/netstat |
| @@ -53,7 +79,8 @@ libc regex functions instead (as per the mailing list discussion): | |||
| 53 | * tftp | 79 | * tftp |
| 54 | * ftp | 80 | * ftp |
| 55 | * group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n) | 81 | * group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n) |
| 56 | * consider making a unified option parser (if it can be done modular, small, etc.) | 82 | * consider making a unified option parser (if it can be done |
| 83 | modular, small, etc.) | ||
| 57 | 84 | ||
| 58 | ----------------------- | 85 | ----------------------- |
| 59 | 86 | ||
| @@ -77,18 +104,6 @@ Most wanted list: | |||
| 77 | Policy violation. getgroups uses libc nss, which is unlikely | 104 | Policy violation. getgroups uses libc nss, which is unlikely |
| 78 | to be present in an embedded system. | 105 | to be present in an embedded system. |
| 79 | 106 | ||
| 80 | To be replaced with a busybox local glob routine: | ||
| 81 | |||
| 82 | [andersen@slag busybox]$ grep -l glob *.[ch] | ||
| 83 | gunzip.c | ||
| 84 | gzip.c | ||
| 85 | sh.c | ||
| 86 | tar.c | ||
| 87 | telnet.c | ||
| 88 | |||
| 89 | Can check_wildcard_match() from utility.c do this job? | ||
| 90 | |||
| 91 | |||
| 92 | ----------------------- | 107 | ----------------------- |
| 93 | 108 | ||
| 94 | Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox' | 109 | Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox' |