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Diffstat (limited to 'TODO')
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1 files changed, 38 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Busybox TODO -Stuff that needs to be done +Stuff that needs to be done. All of this is fair game for 1.2. find doesn't understand (), lots of susv3 stuff. @@ -13,11 +13,20 @@ sh way of adding the minimal set of bash features a given script uses is a big job, but it would be a big improvement. - Note: Rob Landley (rob@landley.net) is working on this one, but very slowly... + Note: Rob Landley (rob@landley.net) is working on a new unified shell called + bbsh, but it's a low priority... --- diff We should have a diff -u command. We have patch, we should have diff (we only need to support unified diffs though). + + Also, make sure we handle empty files properly: + From the patch man page: + + you can remove a file by sending out a context diff that compares + the file to be deleted with an empty file dated the Epoch. The + file will be removed unless patch is conforming to POSIX and the + -E or --remove-empty-files option is not given. --- patch Should have simple fuzz factor support to apply patches at an offset which @@ -31,12 +40,20 @@ man anything, just one that can handle preformatted ascii man pages, possibly compressed. This could probably be a script in the extras directory that calls cat/zcat/bzcat | less + + (How doclifter might work into this is anybody's guess.) --- bzip2 Compression-side support. --- init General cleanup. +--- +ar + Write support? +--- +mdev + Micro-udev. Architectural issues: @@ -44,9 +61,11 @@ bb_close() with fsync() We should have a bb_close() in place of normal close, with a CONFIG_ option to not just check the return value of close() for an error, but fsync(). Close can't reliably report anything useful because if write() accepted the - data then it either went out or it's in cache or a pipe buffer. Either way, - there's no guarantee it'll make it to its final destination before close() - gets called, so there's no guarantee that any error will be reported. + data then it either went out to the network or it's in cache or a pipe + buffer. Either way, there's no guarantee it'll make it to its final + destination before close() gets called, so there's no guarantee that any + error will be reported. + You need to call fsync() if you care about errors that occur after write(), but that can have a big performance impact. So make it a config option. --- @@ -89,8 +108,8 @@ Unify archivers "add this directory", "add this symlink" and so on. This could clean up tar and zip, and make it cheaper to add cpio and ar - write support, and possibly even cheaply add things like mkisofs someday, - if it becomes relevant. + write support, and possibly even cheaply add things like mkisofs or + mksquashfs someday, if they become relevant. --- Text buffer support. Several existing applets (sort, vi, less...) read @@ -126,6 +145,10 @@ buildroot - Make a "dogfood" option One example of an existing system that does this already is Firmware Linux: http://www.landley.net/code/firmware --- +initramfs + Busybox should have a sample initramfs build script. This depends on + involves bbsh, mdev, and switch_root. +--- Memory Allocation We have a CONFIG_BUFFER mechanism that lets us select whether to do memory allocation on the stack or the heap. Unfortunately, we're not using it much. @@ -202,3 +225,11 @@ FEATURE_CLEAN_UP render the existing FEATURE_CLEAN_UP code redundant. For right now, exit() handles it just fine. + + + +Minor stuff: + watchdog.c could autodetect the timer duration via: + if(!ioctl (fd, WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT, &tmo)) timer_duration = 1 + (tmo / 2); + Unfortunately, that needs linux/watchdog.h and that contains unfiltered + kernel types on some distros, which breaks the build. |