| TODO list for busybox in no particular order. Just because something |
| is listed here doesn't mean that it is going to be added to busybox, |
| or that doing so is even a good idea. It just means that I _might_ get |
| 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 in libcrypt). |
| |
| * Networking apps are probably going to be split out some time soon into a |
| separate package (named perhaps tiny-netkit?). This currently includes |
| hostid, hostname, mnc, and ping. |
| |
| |
| -Erik |
| |
| ----------- |
| |
| * 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?) |
| |
| |
| |
| ----------------------- |
| |
| |
| 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. |
| |
| ----------------------- |
| |
| |
| |
| Some known bugs, todo items, etc... |
| |
| ----------------------- |
| |
| |
| [andersen@slag busybox]$ ./busybox du /bin |
| 6213 /bin |
| [andersen@slag busybox]$ du /bin |
| 2971 /bin |
| [andersen@slag busybox]$ du --block-size=512 /bin |
| 5943 /bin |
| |
| ----------------------- |
| |
| -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? |
| |
| |
| ----------------------- |
| |
| |
| /bin/busybox --install -s which makes all links to commands that it |
| can support (an optionnal -s should be used for symbolic links instead |
| of hard links). |
| |
| ----------------------- |
| |
| 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). |
| |
| |