1TODO list for busybox in no particular order. Just because something 2is listed here doesn't mean that it is going to be added to busybox, 3or that doing so is even a good idea. It just means that I _might_ get 4around 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. 12 13 14 -Erik 15 16----------- 17 18Possible apps to include some time: 19 20* hwclock 21* start-stop-daemon 22* group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n) 23 24----------- 25 26With sysvinit, reboot, poweroff and halt all used a named pipe, 27/dev/initctl, to communicate with the init process. Busybox 28currently uses signals to communicate with init. This makes 29busybox incompatible with sysvinit. We should probably use 30a named pipe as well so we can be compatible. 31 32----------------------- 33 34Run the following: 35 36 rm -f busybox && make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | \ 37 sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq 38 39reveals the list of all external (i.e., libc) things that BusyBox depends on. 40It would be a very nice thing to reduce this list to an absolute minimum, to 41reduce the footprint of busybox, especially when staticly linking with 42libraries such as uClibc. 43 44----------------------- 45 46Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox' 47and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller... 48 49----------------------- 50 51 du.c probably ought to have an -x switch like GNU du does... 52 53----------------------- 54 55xargs could use a -l option 56 57------------------------------------------------------------------ 58