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@@ -15,15 +15,12 @@ around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know. ----------- -* Allow tar to create archives with sockets, devices, and other special files * Make insmod actually work * dnsdomainname * traceroute/netstat * rdate * hwclock -* killall * stty -* tr * cut * expr (maybe?) (ash builtin?) @@ -40,58 +37,17 @@ and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller... busybox.defs.h is too big and hard to follow. -I either need to add a better build system (like the Linux kernel?) -or I need to split up busybox.defs.h into coherent chunks (i.e. -busybox.defs.h just has a bunch of: - -#include "fileutils.h" -#include "shellutils.h" - -which would then have smaller sets of #defines... -Hmm. Needs to be carefully thought out. +Perhaps I need to add a better build system (like the Linux kernel?) ----------------------- --rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 4398 2000-01-06 21:55 uniq.c --rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 1568 1999-10-20 18:08 update.c --rw-r----- 0/1000 1168 2000-01-29 21:03 update.o --rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 22820 2000-01-05 11:36 utility.c --rw-r----- 0/1000 7372 2000-01-29 21:03 utility.o -tar: Skipping to next file header -tar: Skipping to next file header -tar: Archive - EOF not on block boundary -tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now - - -#1 You are storing by id instead of name like normal tar. Did you realize this? -(or am I missing some compile option? )ctar did not do this, and I don't think -it's a good idea for LRP. - -#2 -ctar did not produce the EOF error like your tar does. I believe you need to -pad the end of the archive with at least 2 tarsized (512byte) blocks. (I -think???) - -#3 There is no exclude file(s) option to tar. LRP's packaging system can not function without this. Will you have the time to add this soon? ----------------------- -cd /mnt -mkdir BACKUP -mv * BACKUP - -Today, "mv" behaved as a cp -a and my disk becomed full. It does not -work properly either when renaming a directory into something else -(it produces a lot of disk activity when doing this). - - ------------------------ - - Feature request: /bin/busybox --install -s which makes all links to commands that it @@ -114,13 +70,6 @@ I'll add this to the TODO list, ----------------------- - In utility.c:copyFile: It uses followLinks for both source and - destination files... is that right for `mv'? Will need to revisit - the GNU, freeBSD, and MINIX versions for this... Should read the - Unix98 and POSIX specs also. - ------------------------ - I think that the add_inode &c in utility.c needs to also stow the st_dev field, and that du.c should NOT call `reset_inode_list' because there can be hard links from inside one argv/ to inside |