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| author | Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> | 2004-03-27 09:40:15 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> | 2004-03-27 09:40:15 +0000 |
| commit | fbcf06d2960f8f0959aac71d0fad8d9ab446b439 (patch) | |
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| 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 we _might_ get | ||
| 4 | around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please send them | ||
| 5 | on in... | ||
| 6 | |||
| 7 | -Erik | ||
| 8 | |||
| 9 | ----------- | ||
| 10 | |||
| 11 | Possible apps to include some time: | ||
| 12 | |||
| 13 | * group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n) | ||
| 14 | |||
| 15 | ----------- | ||
| 16 | |||
| 17 | With sysvinit, reboot, poweroff and halt all used a named pipe, | ||
| 18 | /dev/initctl, to communicate with the init process. Busybox | ||
| 19 | currently uses signals to communicate with init. This makes | ||
| 20 | busybox incompatible with sysvinit. We should probably use | ||
| 21 | a named pipe as well so we can be compatible. | ||
| 22 | |||
| 23 | ----------------------- | ||
| 24 | |||
| 25 | Run the following: | ||
| 26 | |||
| 27 | rm -f busybox && make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | \ | ||
| 28 | sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq | ||
| 29 | |||
| 30 | reveals the list of all external (i.e., libc) things that BusyBox depends on. | ||
| 31 | It would be a very nice thing to reduce this list to an absolute minimum, to | ||
| 32 | reduce the footprint of busybox, especially when staticly linking with | ||
| 33 | libraries such as uClibc. | ||
| 34 | |||
| 35 | ----------------------- | ||
| 36 | |||
| 37 | Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox' | ||
| 38 | and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller... | ||
| 39 | |||
| 40 | ----------------------- | ||
| 41 | |||
| 42 | xargs could use a -l option | ||
| 43 | |||
| 44 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | ||
| 45 | |||
| 46 | libbb/unzip.c and archival/gzip.c have common constant static arrays and | ||
| 47 | code for initializing the CRC array. Both use CRC-32 and could use | ||
| 48 | common code for CRC calculation. Within archival/gzip.c, the CRC | ||
| 49 | array should be malloc-ed as it is in libbb/unzip.c . | ||