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| 1 : | iskra | 1.1 | 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. | ||
| 5 : | |||
| 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). | ||
| 8 : | |||
| 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. | ||
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| 14 : | -Erik | ||
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| 16 : | ----------- | ||
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| 18 : | Possible apps to include some time: | ||
| 19 : | |||
| 20 : | * hwclock | ||
| 21 : | * group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n) | ||
| 22 : | |||
| 23 : | ----------- | ||
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| 25 : | With sysvinit, reboot, poweroff and halt all used a named pipe, | ||
| 26 : | /dev/initctl, to communicate with the init process. Busybox | ||
| 27 : | currently uses signals to communicate with init. This makes | ||
| 28 : | busybox incompatible with sysvinit. We should probably use | ||
| 29 : | a named pipe as well so we can be compatible. | ||
| 30 : | |||
| 31 : | ----------------------- | ||
| 32 : | |||
| 33 : | Run the following: | ||
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| 35 : | rm -f busybox && make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | \ | ||
| 36 : | sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq | ||
| 37 : | |||
| 38 : | reveals the list of all external (i.e., libc) things that BusyBox depends on. | ||
| 39 : | It would be a very nice thing to reduce this list to an absolute minimum, to | ||
| 40 : | reduce the footprint of busybox, especially when staticly linking with | ||
| 41 : | libraries such as uClibc. | ||
| 42 : | |||
| 43 : | ----------------------- | ||
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| 45 : | Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox' | ||
| 46 : | and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller... | ||
| 47 : | |||
| 48 : | ----------------------- | ||
| 49 : | |||
| 50 : | xargs could use a -l option | ||
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