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@@ -2,15 +2,8 @@ Busybox TODO Stuff that needs to be done -tr - missing SuS3 features in busybox 1.0pre10 - -tr doesnt support [:blank:], [:digit:] or other predefined classes, [=equiv=] -support is also missing. ----- find - doesn't understand () or -exec, and these are actually used out in the real - world. The "make uninstall" of lots of things (including busybox itself) - breaks because of this, and sometimes even "make install" (like udev). + doesn't understand (), lots of susv3 stuff. ---- sh The command shell situation is a big mess. We have three or four different @@ -22,15 +15,6 @@ sh Note: Rob Landley (rob@landley.net) is working on this one, but very slowly... --- -gzip - Can't handle compressing multiple files at once. (I don't mean making a - multiple file archive, I mean compressing more than one file at a time.) - Some global variables aren't re-initialized between runs. ---- -gunzip - same problem as gzip. "gunzip one.gz two.gz three.gz" doesn't work for - two.gz and three.gz due to global variables not getting reset. ---- diff We should have a diff -u command. We have patch, we should have diff (we only need to support unified diffs though). @@ -46,7 +30,7 @@ man It would be nice to have a man command. Not one that handles troff or 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/zcatbzcat | more + calls cat/zcat/bzcat | less --- bzip2 Compression-side support. @@ -74,7 +58,7 @@ Unify archivers if it becomes relevant. --- Text buffer support. - Several existing applets and potential additions (sort, vi, less...) read + Several existing applets (sort, vi, less...) read a whole file into memory and act on it. There might be an opportunity for shared code in there that could be moved into libbb... --- @@ -89,20 +73,23 @@ Individual compilation of applets. got the code for (like zlib). --- buildroot - Make a "dogfood" option - Busybox is now capable of replacing most gnu packages for real world use, - such as developing software or in a live CD. A system built from busybox - (1.00 with updated sort.c), uclibc 0.9.27, gcc, binutils, make, and a few - other development tools (http://www.landley.net/code/firmware has an example - system using autoconf, automake, bison, flex, libtools, m4, zlib, - and groff: dunno what subset of that is actually necessary) is capable of - rebuilding itself, from scratch, under itself. + Busybox 1.1 will be capable of replacing most gnu packages for real world use, + such as developing software or in a live CD. It needs wider testing. + + Busybox should now be able to replace bzip2, coreutils, e2fsprogs, file, + findutils, gawk, grep, inetutils, less, modutils, net-tools, patch, procps, + sed, shadow, sysklogd, sysvinit, tar, util-linux, and vim. The resulting + system should be self-hosting (I.E. able to rebuild itself from source code). + This means it would need (at least) binutils, gcc, and make, or equivalents. It would be a good "eating our own dogfood" test if buildroot had the option - of using busybox instead of bzip2, coreutils, file, findutils, gawk, grep, - inetutils, modutils, net-tools, procps, sed, shadow, sysklogd, sysvinit, tar, - util-linux, and vim. Anything that's wrong with the resulting system, we - can fix. (It would be nice to be able to upgrade busybox to be able to - replace bash, diffutils, gzip, less, and patch as well.) + of using a "make allyesconfig" busybox instead of the all of the above + packages. Anything that's wrong with the resulting system, we can fix. (It + would be nice to be able to upgrade busybox to be able to replace bash and + diffutils as well, but we're not there yet.) + + One example of an existing system that does this already is Firmware Linux: + http://www.landley.net/code/firmware --- Memory Allocation We have a CONFIG_BUFFER mechanism that lets us select whether to do memory |