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@@ -6,36 +6,47 @@ around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know. * login/sulogin/passwd/getty/etc are part of tinylogin, and so are not needed or wanted in busybox (or else I'd have to link to libcrypt). -* Networking apps are probably going to be split out some time soon into a - separate package (named perhaps netkit-tiny?). This would remove the - following items from BusyBox: hostid, hostname, nc, nslookup, telnet, and - ping. nfs mounting and syslogd (network logging) will remain in BusyBox. +* Networking apps are going to be split out to a new package called netkit-tiny + before the next release of Busybox. This will remove the following items + from BusyBox: hostid, hostname, nc, nslookup, telnet, and ping. nfs + mounting and syslogd (network logging) will remain in BusyBox. -Erik ----------- -* dnsdomainname -* traceroute/netstat +Possible apps to include some time: + * hwclock * stty -* tftp -* ftp * group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n) ----------------------- +The Busybox lash shell needs to be taught Bourne shell grammer. This +is planned for the next release of Busybox. Look out ash, we are coming +for you... + +----------------------- + Running the following: rm -f busybox && make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | \ sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq reveals the list of all external (i.e. libc) things that BusyBox depends on. -It would be a very nice thing to reduce this list to an absolute minimum, and -then create a microLibc to provide these functions. There is no good reason -for GNU libc to be so big. I'm sure it can be a lot better. +It would be a very nice thing to reduce this list to an absolute minimum, to +reduce the footprint of busybox when staticly linking with libraries such as +uClibc. -(BTW, this is more informative if BB_FEATURE_NFSMOUNT is turned off...) +----------------------- + +Currently, busybox bypasses libc NSS. Some folks might want that, +so perhaps adding in the option to choose whether to go to libc for +things like getpwnam() or whether to use the busybox version might +be nice. + +----------------------- Most wanted list: |